In the Bible or Not?

Sir Edwin Sandys' Europae Speculum (1599)

"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).

Mohandas Gandhi’s autobiography (1929)

Samuel Butler in his poem "Hudibras" (1663 to 1677)

William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (1596)

"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).

Alexander Pope's poem "An Essay on Criticism" (1711)

Aesop's The Fox and the Goat (about 500 B.C.)

"Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard" (Proverbs 13:15 KJV).

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

"The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid" (Proverbs 30:19).

"TEKEL: You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting;" (Daniel 5:27).

Thomas H. Palmer's "Teacher's Manual" (1782-1861) and Frederick Maryat's "The Children of the New Forest" (1792-1848)

Titus Maccius Plautus's  Asinaria, Act 3, Scene 3 (212-205 B.C.)

William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

Aristotle

Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883)

"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).

Edward FitzGerald's "Solomon's Seal" (1852)

Jonathan Swift's "A Tale of a Tub" (1704)