• รักฉันต้องรักหมาฉันด้วย
  • Transliteration: Rak chan tong rak maa chan duay
  • Literal: Love me, love my dog.
  • Meaning: If you love me, love me with all my faults.

• ขีช้างจับตั๊กแตน
  • Transliteration: Kee chang jahb thak-a-thaen
  • Literal: Ride an elephant to catch a grasshopper.
  • Meaning 1: You invest a lot of capital into a venture only to receive a tiny profit.
  • Meaning 2: Use the correct tool for the job.

• เส้นผมบังภูเขา
  • Transliteration: Sin pom bang puu khao
  • Literal: (A single) Hair hides the mountain (in the distance).
  • Meaning 1: Sometimes the problem is not as big as you think it is.
  • Meaning 2: You can't see the answer even when it's right in front of you.

• กิ่งทองใบหยก
  • Transliteration: Ging tong by yok
  • Literal: A gold branch with an emerald leaf.
  • Meaning: The perfect couple.

• จับปลาสองมือ
  • Transliteration: Jahb plaa song muh
  • Literal: Catch fish two hands.
  • Meaning 1: It takes two hands to catch a fish.
  • Meaning 2: One fish in the hands is better than two in the sea.
  • Meaning 3: Try to do too many things at once, and you will get nothing.

• ช้างตายทั้งตัวเอาใบบัวปิดไม่มิด
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: You can't cover a dead elephant with a lotus leaf.
  • Meaning: Don't try to hide a big mistake/problem, once it's out in the open.

• ปิดทองหลังพระ
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Cover the back of an image of Buddha with gold leaf.
  • Meaning: Do a job with love, without looking for credit.

• งมเข็มในมหาสมุทร
  • Transliteration:Ngom kem nai mahaa-sa-mut
  • Literal: Find a pin in the ocean.
  • Meaning: Don't try the impossible.

• รักวัวให้ผูกรักลูกให้ตี
  • Transliteration: Rak wua hy puuk rak luuk hy dtee
  • Literal: Love cow, tie (it up); love child, hit him/her.
  • Meaning: If you love a child, you must discipline them.

• ความลับไม่มีในโลก
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: NO Secret in the world.
  • Meaning: Nobody can keep their secrets forever.

• น้ำขึ้นให้รีบตัก
  • Literal: When water up get it quick.
  • Meaning: If you get an opportunity, seize it.

• กันไว้ดีกว่าแก้
  • Transliteration: Gan wy dtee gwaa gae
  • Literal: Prevention is better than cure.
  • Meaning:

• ไฟลนก้น
  • Transliteration:
  • Meaning:Someone to do sometime near deadline.

• เตี้ยอุ้มค่อม
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: A short man carry a short man.
  • Meaning: One need not be great to help others.

• แกะดำ
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Black sheep.
  • Meaning: Someone who behaves differently than others.

• เข็นครกขึ้นภูเขา
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal:
  • Meaning: Do something too difficult to do.

• งมเข็มในมหาสมุทร
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Search for a needle in the ocean.
  • Meaning: Don't try to do the impossible.

• หัวล้านได้หวี
  • Transliteration: Hua laan dy wee
  • Literal: A bald man carries a comb.
  • Meaning: A person sometimes wants something that is useless to him/her.

• หนีเสือปะจระเข้
  • Transliteration: Nee sua pa' jarakeh
  • Literal: Escape from a tiger to be eaten by a crocodile.
  • Meaning: Finally you escape a thief, and then you meet a liar.
  • English version: Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

• ไก่ได้พลอย
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Don't give a chicken a diamond.
  • Meaning: A person who has a good thing, but he doesn't know about value.

• สอนจระเข้ว่ายน้ำ
  • Transliteration: Son jarakeh wai-naam
  • Literal: Teach a crocodile to swim.
  • Meaning: Don't teach a person something he/she already knows.

• กบในกะลา
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Frog in the box.
  • Meaning: Someone thinks himself is to be number one and outstanding but in fact he is fool.

• ไก่เห็นตีนงู งูเห็นนมไก่
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: A chicken see the snake's foot; a snake sees the chicken's breast.
  • Meaning: The both man know the secret of together.

• กระต่ายตื่นตูม
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: A rabbit is over excited.
  • Meaning: When you are excited, you cannot see the real issue.

• ไก่งามเพราะขน คนงามเพราะแต่ง
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Chicken are beautiful because of their feathers, women are beautiful because of their make-up.
  • Meaning: Although women are born to be beautiful, they still should have good make-up and a good character.

• เดินตามหลังผู้ใหญ่ หมาไม่กัด
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Follow the old man, dog cannot bike.
  • Meaning: Follow the wiseman and you will be successful.

• รำไม่ดีโทษปี่โทษกลอง
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: He who dances poorly, blames the musician.
  • Meaning: Someone does not be successful (or good), he does not blame himself but he blames another.

• ชิงสุกก่อนห่าม
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Get overripe before partly ripe.
  • Meaning: A person who did something before appropriate time.

• กว่าถั่วจะสุกงาก็ไหม้
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Before the nut is cooked, a bean is burnt.
  • Meaning: Before you do something complete,the big things had failed.

• เข้าหูซ้ายทะลุหูขวา
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Goes in the left ear, goes out the right ear.
  • Meaning: Teach someone something,with no result.

• มือไม่พายเอาเท้าราน้ำ
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Doesn't paddle, but puts his feet in the river.
  • Meaning: A person who doesn't help, but makes problems.

• จับเสือมือเปล่า
  • Transliteration: jub sua mue paol
  • Literal: Catch a tiger with your hands.
  • Meaning: Don't search for an opportunity for which you are not prepared.

• กินบนเรือนขี้รดบนหลังคา
  • Transliteration:
  • Literal: Eat in a house but has excreted on the roof.
  • Meaning: Don't do bad things for a person who has to do a good things for you.

See also

• List of proverbs