Sake

Famous quotes containing the word sake:

“Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.”
—Bible: New Testament St. Paul, in 1 Timothy, 5:23.

“Tom took his whipping and went back to his seat not at all broken-hearted, for he thought it was possible that he had unknowingly upset the ink on the spelling-book himself, in some skylarking bout—he had denied it for form’s sake and because it was custom, and had stuck to the denial from principle.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)