揠苗助长
宋人有悯其苗之不长而揠之者，芒芒然归，谓其人曰：“今日病矣，予助苗长矣！”其子趋而往视之，苗则槁矣。
《孟子》
A man of the state of Song was worried about his seedlings growing too slowly. He pulled up the seedlings one by one and came home exhausted.
“I am tired out today. I helped the seedlings to grow,” he said to his family.
His son hurried to the fields to have a look and found that all seedlings had shriveled up.
Mencius
