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Proverbs

Even cold water should be first served to a senior

You should do everything in due order.

Patience will bring you luck; Patience is a virtue

You will produce good results in the end if you endure hardships.

A sparrow cannot just pass a mill

To be unable to pass by what one likes or what will benefit oneself.

If a sparrow tries to walk like a stork, he will break his legs; Tailor your ambitions to the measure of your abilities

If one tries to do something beyond one's capacity or reach, one is likely to ruin it or do harm to oneself.

You can avoid committing a murder if you keep in mind the Chinese character '忍', which means being patient

You will avoid disaster if you suppress resentment till the end.

Even if a virgin gives birth to a baby, she will have something to say; Give the devil his due; Every evil-doer has his reasons

Even a person who makes big mistakes has his/her own excuses or reasons.

You can estimate water one thousand meters deep, but you cannot estimate the human mind one centimeter deep; You can sound water ten fathoms deep, but you cannot sound the human heart a single fathom

It is very difficult to know what is really on a person's mind.

You can repay a debt with words even if it is worth as much as one thousand nyang, a unit of old Korean coinage; A soft answer turns away wrath

You can solve a difficult or seemingly impossible problem if you speak in a favorable and plausible manner.

Even a one thousand kilometer journey begins with the first step

An expression used to stress the importance of the beginning of something because achieving great work starts with doing small things.

Even a one thousand kilometer distance can feel very close

An expression meaning you can maintain close terms with someone who is very intimate with you even if he/she is far away.

You can never be full with the first bite

An expression meaning you cannot be completely satisfied with something at one go.

Various types of green colors are all green; Like draws to like; Birds of a feather flock together; One devil knows another

An expression meaning people in the same situation or league side with each other.

People are likely to disclose their true intentions while they are drunk

An expression meaning the nonsense one talks when drunk reflects one's real intentions.

a child raised under the skirt

A child of a widow.

Is your skirt twelve-fold wide?

(sarcastic) An expression used to describe a behavioral pattern of meddling and interfering in the business of others.

Those who have hit a person sleeping with their legs bent, but those who have been hit sleeping with their legs stretched out

Those who have done damage to somebody feel uneasy, while to whom damage has been done are more at ease.

follow one's friend to the south of the river

To be guided by someone and do something unplanned or against one's will.

Good friends are those who are old, and good clothes are those that are new

An old friend is good because you have become deeply attached to him/her.

not know where someone's nose is attached to

To not know what a person looks like because he/she is an utter stranger.

not know even if one's nose is held

For a place to be very dark to such an extent that one cannot notice what happens.