College Quotes and Sayings

College is the best time of your life.

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.

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

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

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

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

If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing…. you have a college degree.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.

College professor–someone who talks in other people’s sleep

The chief value in going to college is that it’s the only way to learn it really doesn’t matter.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

If I went back to college again, I’d concentrate on two areas: learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.

You can lead a boy to college, but you can’t make him think.

A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

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.

When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price.

The important thing is the educational experience itself…how to survive it.

The purpose of the university is to make students safe for ideas — not ideas safe for students.

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

I have never let schooling interfere with my education.

80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn’t read.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

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?

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

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

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income–which he then spends sending his son to college

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

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

Life is my college.

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn’t.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.