The fox preys farthest from his home. 
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.
- Take heed of an ox before, of a horse behind, of a monk on all sides.
- Put not the hand between the bark and the tree.
- Birds once snared fear all bushes.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
French
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Un bon renard ne mange jamais les poules de son voisin.
A good fox never eats its neighbor's chickens.
German
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Wo der Fuchs sein Lager hat, da raubt er nicht.
Where the fox has his camp, he does not rob.
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Wo der Wolf liegt, da raubt er nicht.
Where the wolf lies, there he does not rob.
Czech
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Co je v domě, není pro mě.
What's in the house is not for me.
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Vlk tu nebéře, kde má mladé.
The wolf isn't here to feed his young.