A man who wears a borrowed coat is not respected for it; it does not grace him well and it makes people laugh. If you churn buttermilk or pound chaff, nothing whatever is gained; your toil is wasted. Tuka says, If you have no store of your own, what you beg of others is mere chaff, there is no grain in it.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 2514
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents