Sunday, February 27, 2011

Korean Proverbs

Pinch yourself and you will know the pain another feels when pinched.

Blame yourself, not the stream, if you fall in the water.

You cannot carry a stone up a mountain without getting red in the face.

To make a mountain, you must carry every load of earth.

You can mend with a trowel today what it will take a spade to mend tomorrow.

If you love your own children, love also those of others.

You cannot eat the picture of a loaf of bread.

Do not try to cut water with a sword.

A fellow who has ten faults sneers at another for having one.

*** Sourced from A History of the Korean People in Modern Times: 1800 to the Present by Robert T. Olver

No comments:

Post a Comment