Sentence examples of "avare de paroles" in French
Comme c'est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits au contraire ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.
Just as it is the tendency of great minds to make one hear much with few words, small minds have a talent for talking a lot, and saying nothing.
Il a lu dans mes paroles un message que je n'avais pas prévu.
He read into my words a message that I hadn't intended.
Il était une fois un vieil homme avare qui vivait au village.
Once upon a time, there lived a stingy old man in the village.
Mon voisin est un vieil avare grippe-sou qui ne te donnerait même pas l'heure qu'il est.
My neighbor is a penny-pinching old miser who won't even give you the time of day.
Peu à peu je commençais à comprendre le sens profond de ses paroles.
Gradually the true meaning of what he said began to dawn on me.
Il a tendance à considérer toute chose sous un angle pratique et n'est ni avare ni prodigue.
He is inclined to look at everything from the standpoint of its practicality and is neither stingy nor extravagant.
Un avare amasse de l'argent non pas parce qu'il est prudent mais parce qu'il est avide.
A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.
J'ai trouvé un jour dans une école un garçon de taille moyenne qui maltraitait un petit garçon. Je lui ai fait la leçon, mais il a répondu : "Les grands me frappent, alors je frappe les petits ; c'est juste." Par ces paroles, il a résumé toute l'histoire du genre humain.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
Lorsqu'un imbécile rapporte les paroles d'un homme intelligent, ce n'est jamais exact, puisqu'il traduit inconsciemment ce qu'il entend en quelque chose qui lui est compréhensible.
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.
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