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College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
- George Gobel


College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink.
- Auther Unknown


One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.
- Dennis Prager


College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
- Robert Frost


You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
- Elbert Hubbard


College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller


A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
- Thomas Ehrlich


Definition of a College professor: someone who talks in other people's sleep.
- W. H. Auden


Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach.
- Will Rogers


I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
- Dave Barry


A college education shows a man how little other people know.
- Thomas C. Haliburton


Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
- Louisa May Alcott


Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
- Ronald Reagan


I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
- Ann Richards


In one century we went from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to offering remedial English in college.
- Joseph Sobran


A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.
- Leonard L. Levinson


I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
- Al McGuire


College is the best time of your life.
- Auther Unknown


Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
- Marian Wright


At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.
- Leon Botstein


College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
- Elbert Hubbard


Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.
- Martin H. Fischer


No man should escape our colleges without knowing how little he knows.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer


Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
- L.L. Hendren


It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
- Barry Switzer


Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
- Paul Fussell


A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
- Theodore Roosevelt


The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary.
- Martin H. Fischer


It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
- Millard Fuller


I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
- Agnes DeMille


If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.
- Frank Zappa


Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
- Will Rogers


Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
- P. J. O'Rourke


A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
- John Ciardi


Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain


At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
- Barnaby C. Keeney


Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
- Alice Miller


I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- Dr. Carl Sagan


That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!
- Dan Castellaneta


The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
- J. Frank Dobie


College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
- Elbert Hubbard


Of course there's a lot of knowledge in colleges, the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell


An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
- Ambrose Bierce


A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.
- Craig Kilborn


Quiet you kids. If I hear one more word, Bart doesn't get to watch cartoons, and Lisa doesn't get to go to college.
- Dan Castellaneta


Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
- Elbert Hubbard


A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a college education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- Theodore Roosevelt


Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
- Lillian Smith


The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
- Woodrow T. Wilson


Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.
- Maya Angelou


A college is a place where pebbles are polished and diamonds dimmed.
- Robert Ingersoll


College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller


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