cultivate one's own garden
To take care of one's own needs before trying to take care of others: “The mayor ought to cultivate his own garden before he starts telling the governor what to do.” This is the moral of Candide, by Voltaire: take care of your own, and the world will take care of itself.
Words Nearby cultivate one's own garden
- cultism
- cultivable
- cultivar
- cultivate
- cultivated
- cultivate one's own garden
- cultivation
- cultivator
- cult of personality
- cultrate
- cultural
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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