APAD:if you can't be good, be careful

移花接木
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if you can't be good, be careful

used to tell someone to enjoy themselves at an event or during an activity, but not to take risks

As children, we were always being told to behave, or sometimes just to be good.  As adults, however, those admonishments changed to “Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do!” or, perhaps, to “If you can’t be good, be careful.”  It might be preferred that you just be good—not engage in risky or immoral behavior while you’re out having fun—but if you just have to be bad, be sensible about it, or at least keep it from coming to the attention of the authorities.

The saying was first published in this form in 1903, when Arthur M. Binstead said in his Pitcher in Paradise, “Always bear in mind what the country mother said to her daughter who was coming up to town to be apprenticed to the Bond Street millinery, ‘For heaven’s sake be good; but if you can’t be good, be careful’.” However, the meaning behind the expression is a lot older than that.  It comes from the 11th century Latin proverb Si non caste, tamen caute, which translates as “if not chastely, nevertheless cautiously.”

There are many variations on this saying, several along the lines of “Be good.  And if you can’t be good, be careful.  And if you can’t be careful, name it after me.”  Given those additions, you have a hierarchy of behavior to work with!

最西边的岛上
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
最西边的岛上
tho sometimes enemies choose 2 ;-))) so alwaysB careful .
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7grizzly
To counter risk-aversion, no guts no glory.
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7grizzly
Being a good person doesn't get you loved. It gets you used.
最西边的岛上
haha,beenThereDoneThat&noRegret. bGoodIsGood 4me;)
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7grizzly
I shouldn't but still have too much cynicism :-)
最西边的岛上
4me, 我绝不可负天下人,whatOthersDo r theirChoice
妖妖灵
问候美坛童鞋们七夕快乐!我英文都忘了,怎么办?:)

照了张照片,构图上有什么建议吗?

 

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最西边的岛上
welcome back 灵美眉!
妖妖灵
TY, 西岛美眉!:)
暖冬cool夏
妖mm七夕快乐!Welcome back!怀念你带我们写诗读新闻的日子!
移花接木
大蝴蝶好清晰,
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7grizzly
Come back, we need to fill the blanks in the news!
妖妖灵
TY,暖冬mm!也开心把英文诗彻底搞明白啦:)
妖妖灵
看出来摆拍了吗。没建议?其实我不确定蝴蝶位置在哪最好
妖妖灵
英文都不认识了:)开心波音换了engineering出身的CEO
天边一片白云
Welcome back.这是什么果树?
天边一片白云
我每次让我孩子小心,他们都嫌我worry too much.
妖妖灵
猜猜?:)

Jujube 

枣树,不用管就结果了:)