WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:23:18 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg shine – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Herbert, George -- Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 306 (1640 ed.) https://wist.info/herbert-george/70571/ https://wist.info/herbert-george/70571/#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:22:50 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=70571 All is not gold that glisters.


George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh priest, orator, poet.
Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. (compiler), # 306 (1640 ed.)
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Usually modernized as "All that glitters is not gold."

Also recorded in James Howell, Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, "English Proverbs" (1659) [compiler], in three different places.

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