Who accepts nothing has nothing to return.
More German Proverbs:
The old one who is loved is like a winter flower.German
'Tis written, "What's not your own, that let alone."
German
Buy when it is market time.
German
An uneducated person is like an unpolished mirror.
German
He who praises in praesentia, and abuses in absentia, have with him pestilentia.
German
Dying is not child's play.
German