"Fish without bicycle"(1973); Gandhi's "eye for eye"(1982); Eyes/England(1943)

[Jonathan Lighter]

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle."  The "God" version is textually a bit older, but I saw the feminist version on a poster in 1975 or '76. Does it have a known author?  Might both versions stem from something earlier?

JL

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FISH WITHOUT A BICYCLE
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I don't know if this helps. Is it earlier or later than the feminist version?
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(NEWSPAPERARCHIVE)
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_ Stevens Point Daily Journal _
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Saturday, July 21, 1973 _Stevens Point,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=city:stevens_point+fish+without+a+bicycle+AND) _Wisconsin_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=state:wisconsin+fish+without+a
+bicycle+AND)
...mAn WITHOUT A God is like A FISH WITHOUT A BICYCLE. is the
periodic.....been Able to roll out A pie crust WITHOUT the edges crAcking All the wAy..
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Pg. 6, col. 7:
The term graffiti no longer has a derogatory meaning at the University pf
Wisconsin-Stevens Point. (...)
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"A man without a God is like a fish without a bicycle."
"War is the periodic failure of politics."
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_Daily Tribune _
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1973 _Wisconsin Rapids,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=city:wisconsin_rapids+fish+without+a+bicycle+AND) _Wisconsin_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=state:wisconsin+fish+without+a+bicycle+AN
D) ...mAn WITHOUT A God is like A FISH WITHOUT A BICYCLE. is the
periodic.....cruciAl AreAs. Controls cAn'toperAte WITHOUT quick, efficient Access
to dAtA..
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"AN EYE FOR AN EYE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND"
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Did Gandhi really say this? The movie Gandhi did.
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Glenn Collins. New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Dec 27,
1982. p. B10 (1 page)
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Gandhi's message is unequivocal: "If everyone took an eye for an eye, the
whole world would be blind."
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_'Gandhi': Introduction To a Moral Teacher_
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Colman McCarthy. The Washington Post (1974-Current file). Washington, D.C.:
Jan 2, 1983. p. K2 (1 page)
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Attenborough's film did what it could to convey the breadth of what Gandhi
called _ahimsa_, organized and determined nonviolence. The line is uttered
twice. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."
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"CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THINK OF ENGLAND"
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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations should have nailed this, but gives it as
an anonymous proverb.
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ntId=65882)
LEONARD LYONS. The Washington Post (1877-1954). Washington, D.C.: May 18,
1943. p. 10 (1 page)
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ROMANCE DEPT>: Stanley Baldwin's son tells this story of the day his sister
went out with a young man who wanted to marry her. She asked her mother for
advice, in case the young man should want to kiss her..."Do what I did," said
her mother, reminiscing of the beginning of her romance with the man who was
to become Prime Minister. "Just close your eyes and think of England."


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