People who live in glasshouses should not throw stones

Origin of: People who live in glasshouses should not throw stones

People who live in glasshouses should not throw stones

This old English proverb first appears in George Herbert’s Jacula Prudentum (1640) in the form of “Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.” Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard’s Almanac (1733) wrote, “Don’t throw stones at your neighbors’, if your own windows are glass.”