Famous college quotations

   I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.  Nice Word by Alex Karras

   A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.  Meaningful Quotation by W.H. Auden

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   A college education shows a man how little other people know.  Good Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

   If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing... you have a college degree.  Wise Phrase by Author Unknown

   It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.  Wise Phrase by Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 1951

   The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.  Famous Saying by Robert J. Kibbee

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

   I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that?  Meaningful Quotation by Author unknown, as seen on a T-shirt

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

   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?  Wise Phrase by David Wood

   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.  Wise Phrase by Peter DeVries

   A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.  Famous Saying by Robert G. Ingersoll

   The purpose of primary education is the development of your weak characteristics; the purpose of university education, the development of your strong.  Nice Word by Nevin Fenneman

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

   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.  Good Quote by Agnes DeMille, Dance to the Piper, 1952

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

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

   The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.  Famous Saying by Author Unknown

   A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.  Nice Word by Caroline Bird

   The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.  Meaningful Quotation by Sydney J. Harris

   A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.  Good Quote by Robert Maynard Hutchins

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

   A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.  Wise Phrase by Fats Domino

   The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.  Famous Saying by Russell Green

   No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.  Nice Word by J. Robert Oppenheimer



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