No ta tur palu ta sirbi pa traha imagen.
“Not every piece of wood is fit to carve an image.”
Not everyone or everything is suited for every purpose; each has its own proper role.
— Traditional Aruba Wisdom, Aruba
Source: Traditional Papiamento proverb, shared ABC islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao) oral tradition — Sambumbu folklore collection (Pater Paul Brenneker), public-domain
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Little by little, the barrel fills.
Steady, small efforts accumulate over time into real progress.
Soup doesn't boil twice.
A missed chance rarely comes back, so do not dwell on what is already lost.
A rope cuts twice.
Cutting corners or rushing a job often creates twice the trouble later.
One head makes another.
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Go tell that to a cow.
A sharp dismissal of a story so unbelievable that not even an animal would fall for it.