Clucking hens (Saint Paisios the Athonite)

Besides, humble people are like nightingales: they hide away in leafy hollows and spread joy to people’s souls with their mellifluous singing, giving praise day and night to the Creator of the world. Proud people, on the other hand, are like clucking hens that deafen you with their cackling, as if their egg were as big as the planet.