WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:30:36 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg explaining – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Saint-Exupery, Antoine -- Le Petit Prince [The Little Prince], ch. 1 (1943) [tr. Wood (1945)] https://wist.info/saint-exupery-antoine-de/81559/ https://wist.info/saint-exupery-antoine-de/81559/#respond Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:11:59 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=81559 Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always explaining things to them.

[Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c’est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.]


Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) French writer, aviator
Le Petit Prince [The Little Prince], ch. 1 (1943) [tr. Wood (1945)]
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(Source (French)). Other translation:

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is exhausting for children to have to provide explanations over and over again.
[tr. Howard (2000)]

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