More Korean Proverbs
- The bad plowman quarrels with his oxen.
- Well begun is half done.
- Beans come out from where beans are planted, and red beans come out from where red beans are planted.
- It’s often difficult to see what is right in front of you.
- Where there are no tigers, a wild cat is very self-important.
- Misery loves company.
- You automatically learn what you expose yourself to.
- Do not draw your sword to kill a fly.
- A physician’s neighbor is never a doctor.
- To make trouble and then give help.
- No sleep, no dream.
- A hunter’s knife cannot carve its own handle.
- It is hard to get angry at a smiling face.
- Genius shows itself from an early age.
- If there is a rich man in the area three villages are ruined.
- The matchmaker gets three cups of wine when he succeeds and three slaps on the cheek when he fails.
- Better to ask the way than to go astray.
- Birds of a feather flock together.
- Useful trees are cut down first.
- There is no use in crying over spilled milk.
- You cannot strike a face that is smiling.
- Clothes make the man.
- Even monkeys may fall from trees.
- You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.
- Even a monk can’t shave his own head.
- Anyone who goes hungry for three days will be inclined to steal.
- You reap what you sow.