Top 37 Give A Man A Fish Quotes
#1. Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.
Martin Rees
#2. Give a man a fish
and a kettle,
and he may never feel its HIS kettle of fish.
Teach a man to fish around for his OWN kettle,
and that's when you get
a tasty home-made fish soup
that everyone can enjoy!
Cameron Semmens
#3. O, in the solitude of those mountains I feel free, free as the air, like a light blasting unharnessed through space. A thousand cities, a thousand palaces I would give just for a corner of the Philippines where far away from man I could feel truly free!
Jose Rizal
#4. If you could have stopped it, or if you could have escaped but you didn't, then you would have lost my respect. But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more, you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.
Christopher Paolini
#5. People love to say, "Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime." What they don't say is, "And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod." That's the part of the analogy that's missing.
Trevor Noah
#6. Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
Scott Adams
#7. If you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself
Meg Cabot
#8. Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.
Richard Flanagan
#9. The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.
Anthony Liccione
#10. Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day, but - " "Give a woman a vibrator, and she'll orgasm for life. I get it.
Penny Reid
#11. As the old saying goes: if you teach a man to fish, he will feed himself for a lifetime. But if you just give him a fishing pole, he'll have to teach himself.
Zechariah Barrett
#12. Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.
Confucius
#13. Give a man a proverb
and he'll muse for a moment.
Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb
and he'll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.
Cameron Semmens
#14. I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.
Robert Kiyosaki
#15. Give a man a fish shop
and he'll flounder.
Teach a man to manage a fish shop,
and he'll learn to fill it!
Cameron Semmens
#16. Give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, give him some horns and he can be a Circus Seal act
Josh Stern
#17. Leaving the two loving hearts alone with their God.
Bram Stoker
#18. School should be the best party in town
Peter Kline
#19. If a man comes up and asks you for fish to eat, do not just give the fish. If you do this, the man will continue to come back for more, again and again. When you give the fish, you must teach him how to catch the fish, so he can depend on himself, learn, catch many fish, and teach others.
Daniel Chidiac
#20. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.
Jay Leno
#21. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.
Craig Stone
#22. I know now that it's the sweet, sweating smell of hope, which is opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love.
Gregory David Roberts
#23. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to shop for fish at Whole Foods, he'll be broke within the year.
James J. Cramer
#24. You've heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Well, just change that to "F**k a man and you've made him happy for a day. Teach a man to f**k and you've made him happy for a lifetime.
Roberto Hogue
#25. I can't prove this but i can't prove
you're a good person though i suspect you're a good person.
Bob Hicok
#26. They say give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. But teach a man to fish and he'll get his own show on the Discovery Channel.
Craig Ferguson
#27. Your purpose gave birth to you. It has molded and shaped who you are and what you do. Your purpose is the reason you live and breathe. Your purpose guides your heart, hands, and head. It is alive in you. It is there, within, that you must seek to know it and live it.
Iyanla Vanzant
#28. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Maimonides
#29. Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of his life.
Aristotle.
#30. Give a man a teacher
and he'll learn many a thing.
Teach a man to learn
and he'll learn from everything.
Cameron Semmens
#31. Give a man a fish and he can eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he can eat for a lifetime. Changing the world may not be so daunting after all.
Mike Breen
#32. It was too important a matter, this talking to people, and listening to them, to do it lightly or often.
Robin McKinley
#34. Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.
Desmond Tutu
#35. The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'
Thomas Sowell
#36. London is not a good place to be when you are sad: so crowded it makes you feel lonely.
Moe Cidaly
#37. The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women.
Jose Saramago
