Top 25 Sake Quotes of 614 - Page 14

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

Guy, Trying, Sake

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Bob Black

Sake, Leisure, Hopeless

Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but to make accurate figures.

Blaise Pascal

Men, Style, Sake

Richard Watson, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Raffles, Francis Augustus Cox, Andrew Fuller (1826). “The Christian library: A reprint of popular religious works”, p.579

We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport.

Benjamin Franklin

Giving, May, Sake

Benjamin Franklin (1817). “The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin ...: Comprising a Series of Letters on Miscellaneous, Literary, and Political Subjects, Written Between the Years 1753 and 1790, Illustrating the Memoirs of His Public and Private Life, and Developing the Secret History of His Political Transactions and Negociations”, p.52

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

Benjamin Franklin

Sake, Endeavor, Communicate

Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.359

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Sake, Mark, Historian

Let them (the wicked) see the beauty of virtue, and pine at having forsaken her. [Lat., Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

Wicked, Virtue, Forsaken

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Lying, Goal, Sake

"A Study of History". Book by Arnold J. Toynbee, 1934-1961.

If then nature makes nothing without some end in view, nothing to no purpose, it must be that nature has made all of them for the sake of man.

Aristotle

Men, Views, Sake

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Aristotle

Wish, Sake, Good Wishes

Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Aristotle

Good Life, Sake, States

Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.

Annie Lennox

People, Want, Sake

We cannot hurt ourselves just for the sake of it. When you hurt somebody you hurt yourself. Down the line, the ripple of it comes back to you.

Angelique Kidjo

Hurt, Lines, Sake

O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

Alexander Pope

Joy, Secret, Sake

Alexander Pope (1856). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.131

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Alexander Pope

Science, Growth, Sake

'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Cobham' (1734) l. 11

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Adam Smith

Men, Desire, Sake

Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.393, Harriman House Limited

For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.

William S. Burroughs

Eye, Sake

William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'

William S. Burroughs

Eye, People, Sake

William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!

Will Carleton

Blessing, Sake, Thanksgiving Day

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

Vladimir Putin

Country, Leader, Sake

Time Interview, content.time.com. 2007.

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

Vannevar Bush

Essence, Understanding, Sake

1967 Science is Not Enough.