Like the gardener's dog, that neither eats cabbages himself, nor lets anybody else.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Mind your own business.
- Charity begins at home.
- 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.
- 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.