Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Oxen and the Axle-trees
THE OXEN AND THE AXLE-TREES.
A heavy waggon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of oxen. The axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly: when the oxen turning round, thus addressed the wheels. "Hullo there! why do you make so much noise? We bear all the labour, and we, not you, ought to cry out."
Those who suffer most cry out the least.