Sayings About Teaching A Man To Fish

#1. Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents and gospel instructors, you and I are not in the business of distributing fish; rather, our work is to help our children learn 'to fish.'

David A. Bednar

#2. The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. 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

#4. Obama is a leveler. He has come to narrow the divide between rich and poor. For him the ultimate social value is fairness. Imposing it upon the American social order is his mission.

Charles Krauthammer

#5. I'd be lost without you.

Bella Jeanisse

#6. Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#7. Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition.

Gina Barreca

#8. 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

#9. For very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs of the contrary ...

Patrick O'Brian

#10. 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

#11. It is important to me to take care of my skin. In general I don't like to wear foundation; I'm not a fan of the look. I like my skin fresh and natural enough so my freckles show through.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#12. And if these men steal, if there is developing among them a suspicion and hatred of well-dressed, satisfied people, the reason is not to be sought in their origin nor in any tendency to weakness in their character.

John Steinbeck

#13. 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