Take heed of an ox before, of a horse behind, of a monk on all sides. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Keep your eyes open.
- Look before you leap.
- Let sleeping dogs lie.
- Walls have ears.
- Look after number one.
- Caution is the parent of safety.
- The burnt child dreads the fire.
- Fire and water are good servants, but bad masters.
- The master's eye makes the horse fat.
- Measure twice, cut but once.
- Whom a serpent has bitten, a lizard alarms.
- Scald not your lips in another man's pottage.
- One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants.
- When the fox preaches, then beware your geese.
- Put not the hand between the bark and the tree.
- The fox preys farthest from his home.
- Birds once snared fear all bushes.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
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Ab homine homini cottidianum periculum.
A daily danger from man to man.
German
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Vorsicht ist besser als Nachsicht.
It is better to be safe than sorry.
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Der Ochs stößt von vorn, das Pferd von hinten, der Pfaff' von allen Seiten.
The ox pushes from the front, the horse from behind, the peacock from all sides.
Czech
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Chraň se koňského zadku, panského předku a kněze popředu i pozadu.
Beware the horse's ass, the lord's forelock, and the priest's fore and aft.