Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Mind your own business.
- Charity begins at home.
- Physician, heal thyself.
- The pot calls the kettle black.
- 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.
- One thief robs another.
- 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.
- A hired horse tired never.
- Our neighbour's ground yields better corn than ours.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
French
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Le pain d'autrui est amer.
Other people's bread is bitter.
German
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Eigen Brot nährt am besten.
Own bread nourishes best.
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Brot mit fremdem Messer geschnitten schmeckt nicht gut.
Bread cut with foreign knife does not taste good.
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Fremdes Brot, herbes Brot.
Foreign bread, tart bread.
Czech
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Cizí oběd sladký, ale nesytý.
A stranger's lunch, sweet but not filling.