Nou' n'engraisse pouit les p'tits cochons d'iau fine.
“Little pigs are not fattened on pure water alone.”
Nothing of value grows or thrives on effort or resources alone without proper substance behind it.
— Traditional Guernsey Wisdom, Guernsey
Source: Traditional Guernsey proverb, recorded in Sir Edgar MacCulloch, Guernsey Folk Lore (1903), public-domain oral tradition
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