The master's eye makes the horse fat. 
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.
- 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.
- 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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Oculus domini saginat equum.
Owner's eye feeds the horse.
French
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Il n'est pour voir que l'oeil du maître.
The only way to see is through the master's eye.
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L'oeil du maître engraisse le cheval.
The master's eye fattens the horse.
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L'oeil du fermier vaut fumier.
The farmer's eye is worth manure.
German
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Des Herrn Auge macht das Pferd fett.
The eye of the beast makes the horse fat.
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Das Auge des Herrn düngt den Acker wohl.
The eye of the Lord fertilizes the field well.
Czech
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Oko páně má vše na ráně.
The eye of the Lord is all on the wound.
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Oko páně nejlépe koně vyobročí.
The eye of the lord is the best way to break a horse.