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"A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance." »Clark Kerr
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"For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." »William Blake
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"Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil." »Plato
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"To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic." »Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
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"A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship." »Aristotle
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"I love you the more that I believe you have liked me for my own sake and for nothing else." »John Keats
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"For God's sake don't say yes until I've finished talking." »Christian Nestell Bovee
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"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." »Margaret Fuller
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"Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake." »Aristotle
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"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Practise yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things and thence proceed to greater." »Epictetus
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"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own." »Charlotte Bronte
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"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise." »Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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"I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity." »Kedar Joshi
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"Think on this doctrine,--that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist." »Diogenes Laertius, Zeno
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"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one." »Henry Miller
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"Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake." »E. M. Forster
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"It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'" »Athenus
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"There is no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. ... For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs." »Oliver L. North
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"There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare." »Horace Rumpole
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence - these are the features of Jewish tradition that make me thank my stars that I belong to it." »Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
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"Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living." »Juvenal
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"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having." »Juvenal
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"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having." »Juvenal, Satires
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"What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy--for friendship's sake." »William Blake
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