Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and you contribute to the collapse of delicate marine ecosystems as a result of overfishing.
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#21 Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he’s lucky just to be alive, and he’ll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.
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In Portuguese you can break any proverb (or anti-proverb for the matter) add “under the sheets” (“debaixo dos lençois”) to the first part and “between the legs” (“no meio das pernas”) to the end and you get an instant (although with sexual innuendo) humorous proverb. I’ll give it a go in English…
Early bird under the sheets, catches the worm between the legs.
It takes a Viking under the sheets, to raze a Village between the legs.
“Amarelo ao Sol pôr debaixo dos lençois, alegria do pastor no meio das pernas”
(broad translation) Yellow at sunset under the sheets, shepherd’s joy between the legs"
and so on…
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Own the lake and charge rent to fish and you’ll never have to catch them yourself again.
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A friend with weed is a friend indeed.
Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs.
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In English I believe the equivalent is “as the actor/actress said to the bishop”.
It’s as the actress but I would always say actor because actress is a word I only use when a person wants it used. Usually about them
Blood is thicker than water; but then again, so is pudding.
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Lol. It works especially well with some.
A bird in hand under the sheets is worth two in the bush between the legs.
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“All’s well that ends” would work really well if you were looking for some twee needlepoint to decorate your ICBM silo with and give it that homey feel.
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Friendly fire isn’t.
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for 'tis better to be a provider of unregulated financial intermediation services and cream off 5.6% from both borrower and lender.
A bad workman always blames his tools - a good workman also blames a shortage of materials caused by delivery problems due to a combination of CoViD, Brexit and ships getting stuck in the Suez Canal.
An apple a day keeps Big Apple from sending goons round to knock your teeth out.
ETA:
Never get into a mudwrestling match with a pig, the pig likes it and honestly her album really was better than yours.
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The proof is in the pudding, which has rendered it illegible and, therefore, useless.
A fool and his money are soon parted…oh, wait, dogecoin is way up. He rich now.
28.35 grams of prevention are worth 453.6 grams of cure.
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Nostalgia just ain’t what it used to be.
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Count your lucky chickens!
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Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day
Give a man a pen and he’ll draw a penis
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Victorian guy goes exploring in deepest African jungle. Finds a tribe who live in grass huts and whose leader has had his tribe make him a huge, ornately carved, stone throne on which he sits every day to hear his people’s various entreaties and requests and resolve disputes. He and the explorer spend many hours talking and he learns that in Victorian England people live in houses three or four storeys high.
He has his tribe build him a three-storey grass hut and when it is finally completed he decides his throne should be installed on the top floor. His people all come that day to see the throne installed. Halfway through the day’s audience there is a groaning and cracking sound and suddenly the throne and the king fall through the floor tumbling down to the ground floor. The hut is wrecked, the king barely escapes with many bruises and cuts but otherwise ok.
The moral of the tale?
People who live in grass houses shouldn’t stow thrones.
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A bird in time saves nine.
A stitch in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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The waiter replied, “The fly doesn’t appear to be doing anything, sir. In fact, I believe it’s dead.”
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