Aesop's Fables

#229 The Oxen and the Axle-Trees

A heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen.

The Axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly; whereupon the Oxen, turning round, thus addressed the wheels: "Hullo there! Why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labor and we, not you, ought to cry out!"

MORAL: Those who suffer most cry out the least.