When your neighbor's house is on fire, carry water to your own.
Italian Proverb
Italian Proverb
Related:
- Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house
is in flames. --... - It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is
on fire... - Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves.
Italian... - It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus... - Avoid suspicion: when you're walking through your neighbor's melon
patch,
don't tie your shoe. -- Chinese... - When fire and water are at war, it is the fire that loses.
Spanish... - Love your neighbor, but don't tear down your fence.
German... - It is better to be a coward for a minute
than dead the rest of your life.
Italian... - Redneck-
Takes the wheels off of your neighbor's new house...
From the same category:
- What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish... - He who carves the Buddha never worships him.
Chinese... - It is a cart if it travels well, else it is but timber.
Hindu... - Never give advice in a crowd
Arab... - Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely. Chinese...
