Meaning: If we don't stand together, we will not succeed.
Background:
This saying is generally attributed to one of Aesop's fables, The Four Oxen and
the Lion:
A lion used to prowl about a field in which four oxen lived. Many a time he
tried to attack them; but whenever he came near they turned their tails to
warn each other, so that whichever way he approached them he was met by the
horns of one of them. But then the oxen quarreled and each went to their own
corner of the field. The lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end
of all four. United we stand, divided we fall.
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The oxen were united by one true story: the need for survival. For some truth,
it's not about how intellectually hard it is to grasp and they degrade to
cliches right after birth. But it's about how relentlessly one can execute and
how one can stay on the path and never get derailed no matter what.
Always, keep truth in sight, as expressed in this psalm: "But his delight is in
the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night."
we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin
Meaning: If we don't stand together, we will not succeed.
Background:
This saying is generally attributed to one of Aesop's fables, The Four Oxen and
the Lion:
A lion used to prowl about a field in which four oxen lived. Many a time he
tried to attack them; but whenever he came near they turned their tails to
warn each other, so that whichever way he approached them he was met by the
horns of one of them. But then the oxen quarreled and each went to their own
corner of the field. The lion attacked them one by one and soon made an end
of all four. United we stand, divided we fall.
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The oxen were united by one true story: the need for survival. For some truth,
it's not about how intellectually hard it is to grasp and they degrade to
cliches right after birth. But it's about how relentlessly one can execute and
how one can stay on the path and never get derailed no matter what.
Always, keep truth in sight, as expressed in this psalm: "But his delight is in
the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night."
we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin