post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier

After sexual intercourse every animal is sad, except the cock (rooster) and the woman

Notes

Or: triste est omne animal post coitum, praeter mulierem gallumque. Attributed to Galen of Pergamum.

Words

gallo – cock
sive – but if, conj, if, on the one hand, or if
triste – dolefully, sorrowfully
posse – avail, have influence, to be able
posco – ask ernestly, request, to beg, to call upon
posui – place, post, put, set, station, to lay
mulier – woman