Kenneth G. Elzinga quotes

Kenneth G. Elzinga quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Learning what the world is like; learning what mankind is like - these are hindered if students lie to another, or steal, or claim something is the fruit of their labors when it really is someone else's.”
-- Kenneth G. Elzinga

#Lying Quotes #Honor Quotes #World Quotes

“The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.”
“Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.”
“Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!”
“Love, honor, and negotiate.”

Source : Alan Loy McGinnis (2003). “The Friendship Factor: How to Get Closer to the People You Care for”, p.209, Augsburg Books
“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”
“God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.”
“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”
“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)

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