Text which we have preserved "vaut à dire des Aram," should be read as we have rendered it.
Belgunce, in the simplest kind of a costume, which represented the proverb: Bonne renommee vaut mieux que ceinture doree [A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches].
L'un vaut l'autre--as they appear to me in the wondrous harmony.
L'on ne vaut dans ce monde que ce que l'on veut valoir=--We are valued in this world at the rate at which we desire to be valued.
Il vaut mieux faire envie que pitié=--It is better to be envied than pitied.
Bonne renommée vaut mieux que ceinture dorée=--A good name is worth more than a girdle of gold.
Il vaut mieux être marteau qu'enclume=--It is 5 better to be hammer than anvil.
Mieux vaut glisser du pied que de la langue=--Better slip with the foot than the tongue.
Mieux vaut perdre la laine que la brebis=--Better lose the wool than the sheep.
Le jeu n'en vaut pas la chandelle=--The game is not worth the candle.
On ne vaut dans ce monde que ce qu'on veut valoir=--A man's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts upon himself.
Mieux vaut un bon renom, que du bien plein la maison=--Better a good name than a house full of riches.
But there was none of the Paris vaut bien une Messe about the sons of the saintly Benedetta.
As the French proverb has it: "Tant vaut l'homme, tant vaut sa terre.
Of him that out of scarcity tauntes his neihbour wt the same scorne wt which he scorned him, the Frenchman sayes, il nevaut rien pour prendre la bal a la seconde enleuement, at the 2d stot.
When you are invited to drink, say that you wish you could, but that so little makes you both drunk and sick, 'que le jeu me vaut pas la chandelle'.
Il vaut son pesant de fromage pour une Vaudeville," said the director of the strolling theatre of the place.
The towels have such beautifully embroidered double crests on them, and on the Hartley bit, the motto is "La finvaut l'eschelle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vaut" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
