The forest...

[MrsIH]

“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”

This is from a Turkish proverb. Apologies if seen before here. I am shamelessly copying as seen this on other forums a lot now.

Yawn.

Boring

My favourite is

“Beware those men, the jokers and the tricksters and the clowns. They will laugh us into hell."

Ooh like that one Lonelyplanetmum

"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the Trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.”

The EU project was faltering, but the member states kept pushing to keep it upright, for the EU's ruling masters were clever and convinced the populations of the member states that because they did some good stuff for those people, that meant that everything they did was good for them.

It was not.

The moral of the proverb:
Do not accept crumbs in the hope of forming a semblance of cake.
It is better to make your own cake.

Unhappy with the farmer, the chickens decided to vote for the fox.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

"Why dost thou laugh? What Mares nest hast thou found?"

John Fletcher: tragedy Bonduca, c1613

A mare's nest here is 'a much vaunted discovery, which later turns out to be illusory or worthless'.

'I laughed at The Lorax, "You poor stupid guy, you never can tell what some people will buy"

Doesn't even have to be a tangible thing - just the vague idea of Brexit will do

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time

Abraham Lincoln

One I have seen today - 'hell is the truth learned too late', Hobbes

And Hell is other people!

Jean Paul Sartre