"C’est chose qui moult me deplaist, Quand poule parle et coq se taist."
— Roman de la Rose

January 1, 1970

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It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. — Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) p. 893