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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

Lao Tzu

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Lao Tzu
Chinese - Philosopher

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish, too much handling will spoil it.

Laozi

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

Laozi

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. Center your country in the Tao and evil will have no power. Not that it isn't there, but you'll be able to step out of its way. Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

Laozi

I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

Gordon Ramsay

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

Laozi

Cooking a piece of fish and cooking it right. Knowing the fish, knowing the properties of the fish. That's a hard thing to do rather than covering it with a lot of sauces and foams or other cooking methods that might be high wire acts and look good on the outside.

Geoffrey Zakarian

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Lao Tzu

Too much trouble,' 'Too expensive,' or 'Who will know the difference' are death knells for good food. ... Cooking is not a particularly difficult art, and the more you cook and learn about cooking, the more sense it makes.

Julia Child

Our senses will not admit anything extreme. Too much noise confuses us, too much light dazzles us, too great distance or nearness prevents vision, too great prolixity or brevity weakens an argument, too much pleasure gives pain, too much accordance annoys.

Blaise Pascal

Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.

Laozi

Well, it is true that they did - the Pentagon did impose rules for governing the handling of the Koran in January of 2003, after there had been complaints about the handling of the Koran from detainees, from the International Red Cross.

Michael Isikoff

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

Baruch Spinoza

Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.

James Comey

If one sins against the laws of proportion and gives something too big to something too small to carry it - too big sails to too small a ship, too big meals to too small a body, too big powers to too small a soul - the result is bound to be a complete upset. In an outburst of hubris the overfed body will rush into sickness, while the jack-in-office will rush into the unrighteousness that hubris always breeds.

Plato

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

Vincent de Paul

I think fish do have personalities. Fish have very small brains so there's not much going on in there. But different types of fish have different personalities.

Jeremy Wade

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