Gold is a precious metal. It has its own quality and worth. No other metal can be compared with it. It has a quality that it does not rust. It need not polish to glitter, because of it is the quality of gold that it glitters without polishing. Gold is not found in abundant hence, due to its quality and scarcity, it is a precious metal.
When gold is compared with other metals, it is found that gold has more and more superiority. There is no such glitterness in other metals as gold. Hence, gold is popular and famous for its glitterness. If any other metal is polished in golden color and glistened like Gold, the polished metals glittering will fade within few days but gold glitters like before.
The proverb is said on the quality of gold which glitters, whereas the other metals which are artificially glittered, can not be said that is gold. In the same way the proverb lies on human being. In the present days, we see such persons in our society who glitter like the artificial glittering metal and they try to impress others with their outer polish, whereas they have no such quality of worth. It is commonly known and admitted that showy things are worthless. It has only artificial attraction and show but there is no quality of superiority.
Now a days the world is full of cheat. A showy person tries to cheat others with his out look. Such person present himself, in the society, as a man of high regard and respect. In the society of qualified persons, such self made qualified tries to pace with them and make them understand that he is also the man of higher qualification. Such activities of polished glitterness is common now a days and those persons who are gold indeed, feel themselves faded among the self made gold. but it is also a fact that the thing of precious quality cannot be faded. Its quality is granted forever, but the wolf in sheep's clothing shall fade one day and there will be no room of respect and regard for such person, because of all that glitters is not gold.