Saturday 30 August 2014

All that Glitters is not Gold

f you read this famous idioms you not might get its meaning right and many of you might predict that this famous idiom means all types of gold which seems like gold or glitters preciously isn't really gold many of them is artificial.
   But that not what it really means. before telling you its real meaning let me first tell you about the history of this phrase. This popular idiom is taken from one of the plays of the famous play writer William Shakespeare and the plays name was The merchant of Vince which says

All that glisters is not gold
often have you heard that told
many a man his life hath sold
but my out side to hold 

you might think why the play says glisters rather than glitters.Because in actual the real idiom says all that GLISTERS 
is not gold but people replaced the word glisters by its synonym glitters so from that time this idiom got famous as All that glitters is not gold.Now lets move forward and talk about the famous phrase's meaning. Gold is a very precious thing and has a lot of worth so when ever we see something like gold or Something appealing we quickly trust it but in the end we suffer. let me give an example in times of making new friends we have to go through every one and try to predict who is more loyal, more trust worthy and more likely to be a good friend. Many people try to judge people by their face but sometimes this prediction turn outs to be wrong. Many people with innocent faces turn out to be the worst friend.So all the people who seems innocent aren't really always innocent. Next time when you shift to a new settlement be careful in making a new friend and try not to judge him but instead try to know him from top to bottom before you make him your best friend.
Similarly another example is that when you go to a shop to buy some stationary like pencils ,pens or register. the shop keeper shows you 2 types of pencil one which is raped in the sticker of cartoons like Ben ten and the other which is simple all colored black.In this case if a child is given the authority to make his choice he or she would definitely chose the one with the Ben ten sticker. This is because the one with the Ben ten sticker seems more attractive to that child as ben ten are famous cartoons and the child would think that the pencil is as powerful as Ben ten. But that's not it! most of the time the pencils with some sticker over it aren't of a good quality so in this way the child get easily dodged.
so in the end I conclude that its unwise to judge something from its physical appearance try not to judge it but instead try to know it.

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