“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
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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Attributed to Marx (possibly in jest) in W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion (2003).
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“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's Fauxlosophy (2016)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 601.

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)