College Quotes, Sayings about college life

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

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

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

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I have never let schooling interfere with my education.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Anonymous

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The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.
- Anonymous

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College isn’t the place to go for ideas.
- Anonymous

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

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One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.
- Robin Hobb

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

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

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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
- Anonymous

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College is the best time of your life.
- Anonymous

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

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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to a library.
— Frank Zappa

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The perfect going away gift for a college student athlete. A dictionary.
— Dave Anderson

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The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.
- Fred Dehner

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Colleges are like old age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
- Bob Dylan

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

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Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in hamburger technology.
- Clive James

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

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My schoolmates would make love to anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
— Emo Philips

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

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

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

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The first two years of college are vocabulary lessons. The second two years are spent learning who to ask and where to look it up.
- Bill Austin

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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

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You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.
- Steven D. Woodhull

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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.
- Bill Vaughn

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