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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
CHINESE PROVERB Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
PROVERB Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
LAO TZU Give a man a fish, you feed him for the day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for life.
ANONYMOUS We all know the saying that if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, but if you teach him ho...
CHARBEL TADROS 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. Ta...
SCOTT ADAMS Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death wh...
TIMOTHY JONES Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death whi...
TIMOTHY JONES Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
CHINESE PROVERB Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him of the...
ZENNA SCHAFFER Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Tea...
JAY LENO They're real life demonstrations of the biblical adage 'If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a da...
DAVID KOCH Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won...
DAVE BARRY Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and...
CONFUCIUS People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’l...
TREVOR NOAH Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for ...
LARKEN ROSE Give a man a fish and he will have food for one day. Teach him to catch fish and he will spend all ...
ANONYMOUS The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful busine...
KARL MARX Give a man a fish and he won't starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish and he won't starve for his...
AFRICAN PROVERB Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his...
CHINESE PROVERB Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day.
Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a life...
WASEEM LATIF Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportu...
KARL MARX If you feed a child, you strengthen him for a day; if you educate him, you strengthen him for a life...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish...
DAN QUAYLE Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks!
, ANIMAL CROSSING: WILD WORLD, 2005 If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'...
DAN QUAYLE History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS... Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN is a broken man an outlaw?"

"More or less." Brienne answered.

Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR. When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ...
GARY F EVANS... When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader...
THOMAS SOWELL Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?'
'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh...
A.A. MILNE By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON What you taken for granted, could mean a lot to another.
ZENG HAN JUN Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing...
BEN MONOPOLI A wise man understands, an intelligent man knows, but a fool pretends to know.
DEBASISH MRIDHA You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.
RICHARD MADDEN If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you...
MARK TWAIN There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a
MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
BILL OWEN I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
BRITTANY MURPHY Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become ...
THEODORE DREISER A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis...
GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think...
GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of...
BRET EASTON ELLIS If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
MARAT SAFIN Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER It's a simple thing to triumph over your enemies; to confused them and make them unable to retaliate...
J.R. MORALES These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I learned there were lots of realities in the world.
HARUKI MURAKAMI I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself kno...
CHRISTINA LAUREN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.
COLIN FIRTH Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER I'm supposed to be a man but I can't help thinking no one ever showed me what that is supposed to lo...
HEATHER DUFFY STONE Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou...
JAMES ANDERSON A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA He brings a lot of energy to the practice field. A lot of guys feed off him. When he gets on the fie...
BILLY MCMULLEN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE

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