
ProverbWisdom
English origin1564
All is fish that comes to his net.
Meaning: A greedy person accepts anything available, indiscriminately treating all opportunities or possessions as equally valuable.
Origin: A fisherman who keeps everything he catches makes use of whatever comes his way. William Bullein's Dialogue against the Fever (1564) has "all is fish that cometh to the net," and John Bunyan used it in 1680.
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