EIoP - European Integration online Papers - An interdisciplinary working papers series, published by ECSA-Austria. Probably one of the first academic 'journals' published online only.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Magazines and E-zines Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Magazines and E-zines
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Magazines and E-zines Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Magazines and E-zines
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Magazines and E-zines Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Magazines and E-zines
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Magazines and E-zines It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Magazines and E-zines
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Magazines and E-zines "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Magazines and E-zines
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Magazines and E-zines The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Magazines and E-zines
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Magazines and E-zines Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Magazines and E-zines
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Magazines and E-zines In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Magazines and E-zines
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Magazines and E-zines The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Magazines and E-zines
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Magazines and E-zines "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Magazines and E-zines
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Magazines and E-zines What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Magazines and E-zines
