Mind your own business.
Proprium est stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- 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.
- 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.
- The kettle calls the pot black-brows.
- All men are free of Other men's goods.
- 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
- Thou art a bitter bird, said the raven to the starling.
- The hunchback does not see his own hump, but sees his companion's.
- Meddle not with another man's matter.
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
- Proprium est stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum. It is characteristic of folly to see the faults of others, to forget one's own.
- Te corrigas prius, alterum quam corrigas. Correct yourself before you correct others.
French
- Il ne faut pas jeter la faux en la moisson d' autrui. Don't throw your scythe into someone else's harvest.
- Le bossu ne voit pas sa bosse. The hunchback can't see his hump.
- Bossu ne voit pas sa bosse. Hunchback can't see his hump.
- Le bossu ne voit pas sa bosse, mais il voit celle de son confrère. The hunchback can't see his hump, but he can see his colleague's.
- Bossu ne voit pas sa bosse, mais il voit celle de son confrère. Bossu can't see his hump, but he can see his colleague's.
- Que chacun se mèle de son métier. Everyone should mind their own business.
German
- Kümmere dich um dich selbst! Take care of yourself!
- Kümmere dich um deine Sachen! Mind your own business!
- Die Ente lacht über das Watscheln der Gans. The duck laughs at the waddle of the goose.
- Zupf dich an deiner eigenen Nase! Pick your own nose!
- Ein Sperling schimpft den andern Dachscheißer. One sparrow scolds the other roof shit.
- Zupf dich an der eigenen Nase! Pick your own nose!
Czech
- Cizí chalupu staví, a svá na spadnutí. Someone else's cottage is being built, and mine is about to be built.