Goldfish
When you walk well, you are quiet and leave no mark.
When you speak well, you don't hesitate and stutter.
A good accountant adds the same way every time.
A good door keeps out wind and rain,
Closes easily, stays locked.
Good knots stay secure, they don't need bulk or tape.
Life abandons no one,
If we keep aware, learn well.
We each get a lifetime.
Do well, practice, turn on the lights.
The ones who know,
Teach those who do not.
Those who will not learn?
They are the duty of those who will.
Those who understand should be respected.
The willfully ignorant must be cared for.
Not about fairness, we must all fight against confusion and foolishness.
No matter how good or clever we can be, the weak are not to be blamed, but lifted up.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1963, p. 406.
When you speak well, you don't hesitate and stutter.
A good accountant adds the same way every time.
A good door keeps out wind and rain,
Closes easily, stays locked.
Good knots stay secure, they don't need bulk or tape.
Life abandons no one,
If we keep aware, learn well.
We each get a lifetime.
Do well, practice, turn on the lights.
The ones who know,
Teach those who do not.
Those who will not learn?
They are the duty of those who will.
Those who understand should be respected.
The willfully ignorant must be cared for.
Not about fairness, we must all fight against confusion and foolishness.
No matter how good or clever we can be, the weak are not to be blamed, but lifted up.
Goldfish Club. World War II. It is similar to the Caterpillar Club (q.v.) and is for those who had ditched their aeroplanes and taken to the rubber dinghy. A cloth insignia was presented.
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1963, p. 406.
Posted by Zhoen on Saturday, September 24, 2011
4 comments:
Yes, I am all about quiet walking. I need to work better on speaking well.
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Oh, I needed to read this at this moment. Thank you, Z!
Not about fairness, we must all fight against confusion and foolishness.
No matter how good or clever we can be, the weak are not to be blamed, but lifted up. Oh yes!
I didnt understand this until I worked with very handicapped autistic people. And then I realised that there wasnt a cut off point where you could say it was some ones own fault that they were the way they were...and thereby leave them to their fate, uncaring
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