A Quote by Lao Tzu

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

Lao Tzu

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Lao Tzu
Chinese - Philosopher

Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

William Carlos Williams

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

Laozi

When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'

Larry Fitzgerald

Steaming is a great way to cook any firm fleshed fish, but it's often overlooked by the home cook.

Tom Douglas

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

Lao Tzu

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

Laozi

When I was small, I would refuse to drink when I ate fish because I thought the fish would reconstitute itself in my stomach

Peter Ustinov

I had a series of jobs in the small fishing village in West Wales where my family lived when I was a teenager. I worked as a fisherman in the day, and then the skipper and his wife ran a small restaurant - she'd cook the fish he caught.

Johnny Flynn

I cook a great fish, a great salmon. I grill it, get the skin nice and crispy.

Bill Rancic

You should rule a great country As you would fry a small fish- With the least turning.

Laozi

A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

Hugo Grotius

I am almost certain fishermen posess a peculiar bend to their makeup. Fisherman are optimists, and the fish in the future is always preferable to the fish at hand. Even the best fishermen catch fish only a small percentage of the time, which means we persevere in a sport that features failure as its main ingredient. Truly great days, when the fish hammer the fly as soon as it lands on the water are rare.

Joseph Monninger

Loads of overtaking is boring. You go fishing and you catch a fish every ten minutes and it's boring. But if you site there all day, and you catch one mega fish, you come back with stories that you caught a fish this big (indicates a big fish), intead of this size (indicating a small fish)