In the Bible or Not?

Rewording of "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Then may you also do good who are accustomed to do evil" (Jeremiah 13:23).

"Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger" (Psalms 8:2).

"Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days" (Ecclesiastes 11:1).

"A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it" (Luke 8:5).

William Shakespeare's Hamlet

"They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end" (Psalms 107:27).

A loose reference to "Suddenly the fingers of a man's hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing" (Daniel 5:5).

Anna Bartlett Warner's hymn, "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know" (1859)

United States Declaration of Independence (1776)

"Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch" (Matthew 15:14).

"Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces" (Matthew 7:6).

Chaucer's "Tale of Melibee" (1386)

William Cowper's "Light Shining out of Darkness" (1773). It was set to music as a hymn by Cowper.

Charles Fuller in his radio show "Old Fashioned Revival Hour" (1937 to 1968)

"Dead flies putrefy the perfumer's ointment, and cause it to give off a foul odor; so does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor" (Ecclesiastes 10:1).

William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (1596)

John Heywood's A Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe tongue (1546)

Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus translating from an earlier German work (1831)

John Ray's A Collection of English Proverbs (1670)

"They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; it shall never produce meal. If it should produce, aliens would swallow it up" (Hosea 8:7).