Fable
The Oxen and The Wheels
A pair of Oxen were drawing a heavily loaded
wagon along a miry country road. They had to use all their strength to pull the
wagon, but they did not complain.
The
Wheels of the wagon were of a different sort. Though the task they had to do
was very light compared with that of the Oxen, they creaked and groaned at
every turn. The poor Oxen, pulling with all their might to draw the wagon
through the deep mud, had their ears filled with the loud complaining of the
Wheels. And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to
endure.
"Silence!"
the Oxen cried at last, out of patience. "What have you Wheels to complain
about so loudly? We are drawing all the weight, not you, and we are keeping
still about it besides."
Moral
- They complain most who suffer least.
0 Comments