伊索寓言：小母牛與公牛（The Heifer and the Ox ）

The Heifer and the Ox
　　小母牛與公牛
　　

A HEIFER saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival, the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a smile to the Heifer: "For this you were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed."

小母牛看見公牛在辛苦地干活，十分可憐他?？墒羌漓霑r，主人家不用公牛，卻捉住小母牛去宰殺。這時，公牛笑著對她說：「喂，小母牛，正因為你要作祭品，所以你就甚么活都不必干?！?/span>

這個故事帶出的啟示就是：危險等著那些游手好閑的人。