“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)
The Cruise (1998)
“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)
“We are like fish
In this vast sea.
And Satan fishes
For you and me.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
"Monish" (translated in J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 56.), 1888.
“I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon”
Nicholas Sparks book At First Sight
Variant: I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
Source: At First Sight
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.
Misattributed
Indra Nooyi (1955) Indian-born, naturalized American, business executive
Quoted in How PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi gave up cricket for baseball!, 25 March 2012, 18 December 2013, Economic Times http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-05-25/news/31852241_1_ceo-indra-nooyi-bat-and-ball-sport-david-novak,
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.
Prince (1958–2016) American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
Somebody's Somebody, written by Prince, Brenda Lee Eager, and Hilliard Wilson
Song lyrics, Emancipation (1996)
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
" Dazed & Confused Magazine | Josh Homme | Sept'10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf8MQqPIroc", Dazed & Confused Magazine (September 2010)