Our neighbour's ground yields better corn than ours. 
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.
- 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.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Aliena nobis nostra, plus aliis placent.
More pleasing to us, and ours to other people.
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Aliena capella gerit distantius uber.
A stranger's chapel carries a product at a distance.
French
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Vache de loin a assez de lait.
Cow by far has enough milk.
German
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Nachbars Henne legt immer die größeren Eier.
Neighbor's hen always lays the bigger eggs.
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Fremder Leute Kühe haben immer größere Euter.
Strangers' cows always have bigger udders.
Czech
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Sousedova kráva více mléka dává.
The neighbour's cow gives more milk.
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Sousedova kráva lepší mléko dává.
The neighbour's cow gives better milk.