Notably this famous phrase does not appear in the parallel portion of the Gospel of Luke, the Sermon on the Plain, nor does it appear in the more ancient Gospel of Mark. It is therefore quite lost to history whether Jesus actually uttered the phrase or if it was constructed by "Matthew" in his compilation of the many sayings presumably attributed to Jesus.
Another famous but perhaps apocryphal story is told of the encounter between Dorothy Parker, writer and wit, and Clare Booth Luce, writer and wit. Meeting outside the entrance to a party, the much younger and much more beautiful Luce stepped aside and invited Parker in with the now trite phrase, "Age before beauty." Parker swept past and into the gathering with the response, "Pearls before swine."