"Vaut" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... down some of his woods for the sake of a few casks of wine, and Buonaparte has levelled part of the rocks of Meillerie in improving the road to the Simplon. The road is an excellent one; but I cannot quite agree with a remark which I heard made, that "La route vaut mieux que les souvenirs." ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 2 • George Gordon Byron
... de la quelle elles sont accrues a la roche mere; ou pour mieux dire la croute spatheuse fait l'intermede entre le silex, et la roche calcaire, par ou se fait le passage de l'une a l'autre. Mais ceci ne vaut que de boules de silex entierement formees. C'est dont on peut meme se convaincre a la vue, par beaucoup de pierres dont le pave de la ville de Cracovie est compose. Mais la, ou le silex n'est pas encore entierement acheve, la ...
— Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) • James Hutton
... quoique leger, je lasse qui me porte. Un mot de ma facon vaut un ample discours. J'ai sous Louis le Grand commence d'avoir cours, Mince, long, plat, etroit, ...
— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme
... fine and just appreciation of character, indicating the thoughtful observer; and strikingly illustrative of the fact that it is the energy of the individual men that gives strength to a State, and confers a value even upon the very soil which they cultivate. As the French proverb has it: "Tant vaut l'homme, tant vaut ...
— Self Help • Samuel Smiles
... the road to Avernus, n'est ce pas vrai donc, ma belle? There let them bind us or burn us, mais le jeu vaut la chandelle. Am I your lord or your vassal? Are you my sun or my torch? You, when I look at you, dazzle, yet when I touch ...
— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon |
