A thankless sentence

Permanent machine. Overwork. Wishful thinking. Blind people are blind horses. Beat cattle over mountains. Scratch your boots. You’d better wise up. Get twice the result with half the effort. Self-defeating.

Bear-to-bear struggle, monkeys fishing for the moon, pulling out seedlings to encourage, in vain, seeking fish from wood, man will conquer nature, drinking poison to quench thirst, over-exploitation

Burning incense in the wrong temple. Haste makes waste. Draw water with a sieve. Flatter the horse and pat it on the horseshoe. You are too clever to be wise.

Lift a rock and drop it on your own feet.