Small Fish Quotes

I prefer being a small fish in a big pond.

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

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.

When frying small fish, disturb them little.

Madness, like small fish, runs in hosts, in vast numbers of instances.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

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

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

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

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish.

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

I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid, that it's important to understand what it means to be a small fish in a big pond.

The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.

Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

The big fish run the show. I'm a middle fish, but there are small fish that are poisonous.

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)

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

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish.

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some nights so hard I thought I could enter him, open his back at the spine like a door or a curtain and slip in like a small fish between his ribs, nudge the coral of his brains with my lips, brushing over the blue coil of his bowels with the fluted silk of my tail.

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.