The axe forgets; the tree remembers.
classical · folk
Proverb
Anonymous / Traditional · — · Various
The folk maxim: no single author, a long memory. Included where the line has the compression of the rest of the desk.
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.
Comparison is the thief of joy.