You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.

More Korean Proverbs

• Misery loves company.
• You automatically learn what you expose yourself to.
• Do not draw your sword to kill a fly.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Clothes make the man.
• Even monkeys may fall from trees.
• You will hate a beautiful song if you sing it often.
• 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.
• The thief hates the moon.
• A fish wouldn’t get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
• After three years at a village schoolhouse, even a dog can recite a poem.