It is a bad plowman that quarrels with his ox.

More Korean Proverbs

• Even a monkey sometimes falls from the tree.
• Even honey can taste bitter if it’s used as medicine.
• The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.
• Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
• Tap even a stone bridge before crossing.
• Carve a peg only after you have observed the hole.
• It is like a blind man describing an elephant.
• The bull that is used to the sun shivers by the light of the moon.
• You scratch where it itches.
• Even a sheet of paper is lighter when two people lift it.
• The nicest woman is your own; the nicest harvest is your neighbors.
• A man’s youth will never die, unless he kills himself.
• Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.
• Selling like hotcakes.
• There is a proper order for everything.
• The walls have ears.
• A day-old pigeon cannot fly over a mountain pass.
• A nobleman’s calf does not know how a butcher kills.
• Let the fox guard the sheep.
• Jack of all trades, master of none.
• If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot.
• Even though words have no wings, they can still fly a thousand miles.
• Fortune favors the brave.
• Cross even a stone bridge after you’ve tested it.
• Butterflies come to pretty flowers.
• Keep your cool even in the face of despair.
• If you buy cheap, you waste your money.