give examples... thanks for answering!
2006-12-11 21:57:13 · 6 answers · asked by ¤Forever¤ 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
e.g. Jack bought himself a lovely car at the second hand car lot. When he drove it home, its engine gave out on the highway and he found out that all that glitters is not gold.
2006-12-11 22:00:46 · answer #1 · answered by DrSH 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Greed is a temptation for people. They may think short term & do unscrupulous things to get money. I like to use Alanis Morisette's song, "Iroinic" as an example: "an old man turned 98, he won the lottery, died the next day"
Some people will do immoral, unethical things out of greed. But it will not be worth it when you have to answer to God for it. You can think you've just won the jackpot - "messing" someone over, then you can die & it wasn't worth it. (All that glitters isn't gold!) I don't care if you lived one day or 80 years thinking you profitted from it cuz living for the now will pale in comparison to eternity!
Remember that TV game show, Friend or Foe, hosted my MTV's Kennedy. Two contestants would stand facing each other w/Kennedy in the middle. They would try to convince one another to give the money to one or the other of them OR convince each other that they would share. Some people would completely bold-face LIE into the other person's eyes/face to rip 'em off. Kennedy would laugh & say, "you're such a Jezebelle!" One lady snickered it off after she had been "messed" over & said to the offender, "you'll probably get an unexpected expense come up that you otherwise wouldn't have, anyway!" Meaning he (the offender) thought that what "glittered was gold" but she thought NOT & it isn't gonna be worth it cuz he did it dirty.
Back to Alanis Morisette's song, "ironic" : "it's the good advice that you just didn't take. And who would of thought, it figures!
Mr. Play-It-Safe was afraid to fly. He packed his suitcase & kissed his kids good-bye. He waited his whole damn life to take that flight. And as the plane crashed down, he thought, well isn't this nice................and isn't it ironic, don'tcha think? A little too ironic, And I really do think!" :))))!
I don't believe in the "Jack bought himself a lovely car..." scenario because, Car dealers have to price cars in comparison to their worth. They know blue blook, market value etc. (Which they have lot's of practice knowing how to fairly evaluate & price a car!) They can't sell someone a car priced in the range of being in excellent or good condition if it's really in poor. Their verbal reassuring is an oral contract, also. If they say they've done so & so checks & drives like a dream... There are lemon clauses & protection for consumers from being duped/ripped off!!!!
2006-12-12 06:05:17 · answer #2 · answered by Nocine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such quotation. The third word should be 'glisters', from Shakespeare and 'The Merchant of Venice', or more properly Thomas Becon in 1553, '"All is not golde that glistereth."
Becon predates Shakespeare
2006-12-12 06:10:05 · answer #3 · answered by limey_not_lime 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
excepting from gold... yes
glittering candy, glittering inscects, glittering eyes (sometimes they are made of gold too)...
2006-12-12 06:00:46 · answer #4 · answered by nublao 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was going to say what limey said about it actually being glisters, but I won't bother now.
2006-12-12 09:16:36 · answer #5 · answered by fivehundredmonkeys 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no,,not tinsel.
2006-12-12 05:59:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋