“Sell a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will put you out of a job.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity”
Attributed to Marx (possibly in jest) in W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion (2003).
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Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
This quotation has been misattributed to Laozi; its origin is actually unknown (see "give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" on Wiktionary). This quotation has also been misattributed to Confucius and Guan Zhong.
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David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
Introduction, p. 1
Catching the Big Fish (2006)
Source: Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Context: Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
A parody of the "Give a man a fish..." proverb alluding to the subprime mortgage crisis of the aughts on The Colbert Report (14 May 2008)
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 24, “The Graylands” (p. 540).
Eugene Field A Little Book of Western Verse
Our Biggest Fish http://books.google.com/books?id=odM-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Oh+you+who've+been+a-fishing+will+indorse+me+when+I+say+That+it+always+is+the+biggest+fish+you+catch+that+gets+away%22&pg=PA184#v=onepage, st. 4 <br class="br">A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)