Ee weess wuel wat en huet, awer net wat en kritt.
“One knows well what one has, but not what one will get.”
It is safer to value what is certain in hand than to gamble it away for an uncertain gain.
— Traditional Luxembourg Wisdom, Luxembourg
Source: Traditional Luxembourg proverb, public-domain oral tradition
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