The proverb in the title is a berry. In my digestion of it I have learned two deep simplicities.

1. A proverb is not something to explain to the contemplative mind. Digestion is individual.
2. To recognize this proverb as a proverb is to glimpse the subsurface of proverbial depth.

Meanings go deep.
The depths can be searched.
Perhaps there is a bottom.
It would be something foundational.

Here I have brought you a single berry on a big white plate and I have cut it into pieces.

Flowers are beautiful.