College Quotes
Famous Quotes & Quotations About College:
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton.
A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.
~ Caroline Bird.
A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
~ Robert Maynard Hutchins.
Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without.
~ Martin H. Fischer.
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.
~ Peter DeVries.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
~ "Fats" Domino.
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
~ Theodore Roosevelt.
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.
~ Robert Maynard Hutchins.
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll.
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
~ W.H. Auden.
Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
~ Elbert Hubbard.
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
~ George Gobel.
My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
~ Robert Maynard Hutchins.
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer.
College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
~ David Wood.
Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
~ Will Rogers.
A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.
~ Leonard L. Levinson.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
~ John Ciardi.
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