The Oxen and the Wheels
A pair of Oxen wer 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."
They complain most who suffer least.
From Aesop's Fables
A pair of Oxen wer 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."
They complain most who suffer least.
It's weird how either side of a political party or class of people, rich or poor, will say that they THEMSELVES are the ones who are pulling most o' the weight. The fact that the oxen said anything at all shows that they are complaining too, even though, in this story, not the most. This fable also doesn't take into consideration the natural functions of each character. Wheels, by nature, can't pull bulls (no bull), and bulls don't possess a circular, hardened shape to allow a wagon to roll. Perhaps the wheels need some lubrication so they don't creak. Yet another laborer would be required to GIVE the wheels some oil.
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