You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. — Fables for Our Time, Moral of “The Owl Who Was God” (1940) - James Thurber

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, love and you love alone.

We all have faults, mine is being wicked.

The brambles and the thorns grew thick and thicker in a ticking thicket of bickering crickets. Farther along and stronger, bonged the gongs of a throng of frogs, green and vivid on their lily pads. From the sky came the crying of flies, and the pilgrims leaped over a bleating sheep creeping knee-deep in a sleepy stream, in which swift and slippery snakes slid and slithered silkily, whispering sinful secrets.