give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime

谚语

英文释义

谚语
  1. It is better to teach someone to do something themself than to provide the action's reward; education or training is more helpful than charity.
    — He certainly doesn't practice his precepts, but I suppose the Patron meant that if you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn. But these very elementary principles are apt to clash with the leisure of the cultivated classes.

词形变化

give a man a fish alternative teach a man to fish alternative

词源

Apparently coined by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie in her 1885 novel Mrs. Dymond, although frequently now attributed to Laozi or other Chinese thinkers.
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