In the Bible or Not?

"A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards" (Proverbs 29:11).

William Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well (1623)

Allan Ramsay's Collected Scots Proverbs (1737)

Ancient Greek proverb

"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).

William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice (1596)

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

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

"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).

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

"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).

Sir Edwin Sandys' Europae Speculum (1599)

William Shakespeare's "King Henry IV" (1597)

Thomas Howell's New Sonnets and Pretty Pamphlets (1570)

Thomas Tusser's Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1573)

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

"It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones" (Luke 17:2).

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

John Heywood's A Dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the Prouerbes in the Englishe tongue (1562)

Mohandas Gandhi’s autobiography (1929)