Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 2001/01

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] re: the quote
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:50:07 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Blumberg" <reedman@-----.com>
Subject: [kl] re: the quote

> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Would you be so kind as to include the author of that quote;
> I heard it years ago, and would like to remember the author.
> At the time I heard it, I was told the author, and never
> wrote it down. I usually like to keep the author with
> the quote, in contrast to my younger years of just
> appreciating the quote itself. Thanks a bunch!
> Doug
>
> At the risk of looking dumb - was that quote attributed to the Talmud?
(it
> wouldn't be the first, nor the last time... ;)
------
I did a bit of research on the 'Net (a dangerous proposition at best) and
came up with this being a "Chinese proverb" that goes:

"If you show a starving man a fish, he will still be hungry.
If you give a man a fish, you will feed him once.
If you take a man fishing, you will feed him for a week.
If you teach a man to fish, he will never be hungry."

However, some very clever "improved" ones can be found at
http://www.amatecon.com/fish.html .

Mark C.

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