--responding to @needs native check--
It's a proverb ascribed to Aesop or Horace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th...tain_in_Labour
"It refers to speech acts which promise much but deliver little."
As English it's ok.
The slightly old fashioned "brought forth" would definitely make it sound like a proverb even if you didn't know it.
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