He does not care whose house is burning as long as be can warm himself with the coals OR Put out the fire before it comes out of the roof OR Where there is smoke there is fire.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Netherlandish Proverbs or The Blue Cloak, Detail, (panel; 117 x 163 cm [46 X 64 1/8 in.]), Staatliche Museen, Berlin Signed and dated bottom right: BRVEGEL 1559