Strange Murder of Hatton xxix. Union is strength. We, by pooling our resources,.. are
able.. to secure a steady income. 1981 E. AGRY Assault Force ix. This unfortunate
misunderstanding; we must clear it up. .. After all, unity is strength. strength and
weakness; unity and divisionunite see when SPIDER webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
UNITED we stand, divided we fall
1768 J. DICKINSON Liberty Song in Boston Gazette 18 July Then join Hand in
Hand brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. 1849 G. P. MORRIS
Flag of our Union in Poems (1853) 41 ‘United we stand—divided we fall!’—It made and
preserves a nation! 1894 J. JACOBS Fables of Aesop 122 Then Lion attacked them one by
one and soon made an end of all four [oxen]. United we stand, divided we fall. 2002
Times 2 13 June 7 Threatened.., mocked.., hounded.., the churches—or at least, their more
enlightened leaders—are belatedly moving towards the view that ‘united we might just
stand, but divided we most certainly fall’. unity and divisionunity see UNION is strength.
unlucky see LUCKY at cards, unlucky in love.
unpunished see no GOOD deed goes unpunished.
What goes UP must come down
Originally associated with wartime bombing and anti-aircraft shrapnel.
1929 F. A. POTTLE Stretchers vii. The antiaircraft guns always took a shot for luck.
What goes up must come down, and one can be killed quite as neatly by a fragment of his
own shrapnel as by the enemy’s. 1949 N. MAILER Naked & Dead III. vi. Gravity would
occupy the place of mortality (what goes up must come down). 1967 F. J. SINGER
Epigrams at Large 57 ‘What goes up, must come down’ is really a time-worn statement
which wore out after the Venus and Mars probes. 2001 Washington Post 7 Sept. B1 What
goes up must come down, even 26 years later. And the aged Russian rocket that came
down just before dawn yesterday did so with a glowing, protracted brilliance that startled
the early birds who saw it from New York to North Carolina. fate and fatalism