Charity begins at home. 
Proximus sum egomet mihi.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Mind your own business.
- Physician, heal thyself.
- The pot calls the kettle black.
- Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
- Borrowed garments never fit well.
- Sweep before your own door.
- Jeerers must be content to taste of their own broth.
- Name not a rope in his house that hanged himself.
- It is easy for a man in health to preach patience to the sick.
- Fear keeps the garden better than the gardener.
- Your pot broken seems better than my whole one.
- Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbages himself, nor lets anybody else.
- The grass is always greener over the hill.
- Men cut large thongs of Other men's leather.
- All men are free of Other men's goods.
- The kettle calls the pot black-brows.
- One thief robs another.
- A hired horse tired never.
- Our neighbour's ground yields better corn than ours.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
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Near is my shirt but nearer is my skin.
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Proximus sum egomet mihi.
I am close to myself.
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Tunica proprior pallio est.
A tunic is more like a cloak.
French
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Charité bien ordonnée commence par soi-même.
Charity begins at home.
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La chair est plus proche que la chemise.
The flesh is closer than the shirt.
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Ma peau m'est plus proche que ma chemise.
My skin is closer to me than my shirt.
German
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Das Hemd ist mir näher als der Rock.
The shirt is closer to me than the skirt.
Czech
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Bližší košile než kabát.
Closer to a shirt than a coat.
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Bližší jest těla košile než sukně.
The shirt is closer to the body than the skirt.
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Každý svou bradu hladí.
Everyone strokes their chin.