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Aesop's Fables, translated by Laura Gibbs (2002)

256. THE MOUSE, THE FOX AND THE GRAPES
Perry 15 (Chambry 32 *)

A fox saw a cluster of grapes hanging from a trellis and wanted to eat them, but the grapes were too high and she could not find a way to get at them. A mouse saw the fox and grinned as he said, 'You'll have to go hungry!' The fox didn't want a mouse to have the last word, so she replied, 'Those grapes are sour!'
The fable indicts wicked people who refuse to listen to reason.

Source: Aesop's Fables. A new translation by Laura Gibbs. Oxford University Press (World's Classics): Oxford, 2002.
NOTE: New cover, with new ISBN, published in 2008; contents of book unchanged.