For Goodness' Sake

Before I begin I would just like to say that i am new to this and I'm 13 years old. :) Because of this, this first blog will most likely be neither good nor very long; But as i go on hopefully my posts will get better..hopefully:) I would also like to explain my blogs title and purpose. I have been thinking about starting a blog for a while now but could never come up with a theme, title, time, etc. I have finally begun this blog due to the fact that it is Saturday and I am, quite frankly, bored. :) I chose the title Shakespeare&&me because, obviously, I am a big fan of Shakespeare. (I can thank Elizabeth for that:D) In my posts I am going to try to find a Shakespearean quote to center my writing around. This could either turn out fairly interesting or extremely boring..we'll see. :)

2/7/09

Today I was browsing the Internet for random quotes when i came across the quote "For Goodness' Sake". I guess i hadn't realized that Shakespeare used this saying in at least one of his projects. It's not as if this quote is new to me.. in fact my mom and my grandmother say this quite frequently; But for some reason, this time when I read this quote I thought "what the??" I guess I've never actually thought about what "For Goodness' Sake" means. Out of curiosity I went to dictionary.com to find out what "sake" technically means. The dictionary says that sake is something's best interest. Does goodness even have an interest?? And if so why would that convince me to do something?? I mean "for your phone's sake" would probably have a better effect on me. Or "for the sake of you weekend" or something like that. I dont know. I guess it just struck me funny that I had never thought about what it meant to say "for goodness' sake" when i hear it so much. :) Just thought I'd share.

-HannahKate:)