પાણી વલોવે માખણ નહી નીકળે.

pāṇī valōvē mākhaṇa nahī nīkaḷē.

Literally: Churning water will not produce butter.
What it means: One cannot get results from an effort that is fundamentally flawed or lacks the necessary substance.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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