<P> "Not so! not so!" kettle said to the pot; "' Tis your own dirty image you see; For I am so clean--without blemish or blot--That your blackness is mirrored in me ." </P> <Ul> <Li> In ancient Greece, mention of' the Snake and the Crab' signified much the same, where the critic censures its own behaviour in another . The first instance of this is in a drinking song (skolion) dating from the late 6th or early 5th century BCE . The fable ascribed to Aesop concerns a mother crab and its young, where the mother tells the child to walk straight and is asked in return to demonstrate how that is done . </Li> <Li> The same theme differently expressed occurs in the Aramaic version of the story of Ahiqar, dating from about 500 BCE .' The bramble sent to the pomegranate tree saying, "Wherefore the multitude of thy thorns to him that toucheth thy fruit?" The pomegranate tree answered and said to the bramble, "Thou art all thorns to him that toucheth thee". </Li> <Li> In Matthew 7: 3 - 5, it is criticism of a less significant failing by those who are worse that is the target of the Sermon on the Mount: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" </Li> </Ul> <Li> In ancient Greece, mention of' the Snake and the Crab' signified much the same, where the critic censures its own behaviour in another . The first instance of this is in a drinking song (skolion) dating from the late 6th or early 5th century BCE . The fable ascribed to Aesop concerns a mother crab and its young, where the mother tells the child to walk straight and is asked in return to demonstrate how that is done . </Li> <Li> The same theme differently expressed occurs in the Aramaic version of the story of Ahiqar, dating from about 500 BCE .' The bramble sent to the pomegranate tree saying, "Wherefore the multitude of thy thorns to him that toucheth thy fruit?" The pomegranate tree answered and said to the bramble, "Thou art all thorns to him that toucheth thee". </Li>

Where did the saying pot calling the kettle black come from