A plant gets 10% of the energy of the sun that nourshises it, A cow gets 10% of the 10% that the plant gets when it eats the plant, and of course you get 10% of the 10% that the cow gets who got 10% of what the plant got, you can't cut the plant out of it's 10%, but you can cut the cow out and basically be as close to the sun as possible....
As for proverbs::: Be Not the Judge of others, But Know your Deeds are Just, I think that was Mencius, teacher of Confucius
Another one I love, while in Philosophy class in the early 70's our prof. asked us to define the truth as a class homework assignment, next day he goes around the class and one by one we say what we think the meaning of the truth was;;;;; My answer::: The End, he gave me a 3.75 for the semester....