
“Governing a large country is like frying a small fish.”
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 60
:3 Fish: Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
:1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
:*William Shakespeare, Pericles, Act ii. Sc. 1.
Source: Discourses Concerning Government (1689), Ch. 2, Sect. 18; comparable to:
“Governing a large country is like frying a small fish.”
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 60
“Being a big fish in a small pond is great until you have to poop.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”
Source: Images and Symbols (1952), p. 90 - 91.
“Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.”
Page 236
The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)
“Sin which men account small brings God's great wrath on men.”
Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices, 1652
“Great men are sometimes so even in small things.”
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 188.
Speech at his Durham election (July 1843), quoted in G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright (London: Constable, 1913), p. 100.
1840s