A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

unite see when SPIDER webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
UNITED we stand, divided we fall

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  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 division
  

unity 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.

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  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