Korean proverbs for everyday life

One well-chosen word can repay a thousand-nyang debt.

Words become seeds.

No news is good news.

Give an extra rice cake to the child you dislike.

Pouring water into a bottomless jar.

Words without feet travel a thousand ri.

The navel is bigger than the belly.

Even a sheet of paper is easier to lift together.

The riper the rice, the lower it bows.

Give the illness, then give the medicine.

A rice cake pleasing to the eye is pleasing to eat.

The ground grows firmer after rain.

With too many boatmen, the boat goes up a mountain.

Beyond one mountain lies another.

After three years at a village school, even its dog recites verse.

A habit from age three lasts until eighty.

Time is medicine.

Repair the cowshed after losing the cow.

Read a scripture into an ox's ear.

Licking the outside of a watermelon.

Eating cooled porridge.

The cheap thing is bean-dregs cake.

Ah differs from eo.

Would smoke rise from a chimney without a fire?