Single Sentence Saturday: About teaching a man to fish

[koshersalaami]

”Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” only works if the man has access to a lake, but lakefront property tends to be expensive and lakefront property owners don’t take kindly to trespassing. 

[Ron Powell]

Are there no fish in the sea?

[Jonathan Wolfman]

Many live by lakes accessible to the public, Kosh.

[koshersalaami]

Missing the allegorical point. It’s about access. 

[Jonathan Wolfman]

i know    tho u seem to assume that all lakes are on private property   

[Ron Powell]

Are there no rivers and streams?

Too many alternatives re access for your point to be as sharp as it could be....

[koshersalaami]

I suppose I could have written it differently and said

...only works if the man has access to a body of water with fish in it.

[J.P. Hart]

Give a dog a duck and you feed him for a day, teach a dog to fetch and you feed him for a lifetime.

[koshersalaami]

But only if the dog lives in a neighborhood where there are ducks

[Rodney Roe]

Reason liked that old saw, but, like all old saws, it is too simple. How about “Give a thief a gun and a bank is the largest target he can imagine. Give a thief a bank and there is no limit to his imagination.

“Some rob you with a six-gun, some with a fountain pen.” Woody Guthrie

[Rodney Roe]

Not Reason...Reagan.