This quote has a small associated story. I don’t know if my grandma made it up or pulled it from the local “collective wisdom”, but it goes like this:

The devil just had a baby boy, and the devil’s son had beautiful eyes. So the devil couldn’t stop messing with it, while saying “look at my son’s beautiful eyes!” And he would fiddle around with his son’s eyes so much that, one day, he accidentally pierced one of them.

She often told us this story or the quote when we were messing too much with something already good enough. Sometimes because we might break it, sometimes simply because of the wasted time.

She also had other funny quotes, like:

• “paper accepts any/everything, otherwise toilet paper wouldn’t exist” (don’t trust it just because it’s written)
• “don’t count on the egg before it left the chicken’s butthole” (don’t rely on the outcome of future events)
• “don’t get bogged with the cow” (hard to translate this one, but it boils down to only trying to help someone if you’re reasonably certain that you won’t make the problem even worse)