APAD: United we stand, divided we fall

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."