Pig still pork & goat still mutton.
“The pig is still pork, and the goat is still mutton.”
Despite a change in appearance or circumstance, the true nature of a person or thing stays the same.
— Traditional Turks and Caicos Islands Wisdom, Turks & Caicos Islands
Source: Traditional Turks & Caicos Islands proverb, public-domain oral tradition
More Proverbs from Turks & Caicos Islands
Goat business is not the business of sheep.
Mind your own affairs and do not meddle in matters that do not concern you.
When your friend's beard is caught on fire, put yours in water.
Learn from trouble that befalls someone close to you and take precautions before the same trouble reaches you.
Do not polish the floor for a monkey to dance on.
Do not work hard to create an advantage or opportunity that a foolish or undeserving person will end up enjoying.
A drunk man speaks a sober man's words.
What a person truly thinks or knows comes out when their guard is down; the truth slips out in unguarded moments.
The pot is calling the kettle black.
Criticizing someone else for a fault that you share yourself is hypocrisy.
When trouble comes, your so-called friends are gone.
Fair-weather friends disappear the moment real trouble arrives, revealing who was never a true friend.