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.

17 Comments to “College Quotes and Sayings”

  • 1. Steve wrote on 14 February, 2008, 18:32
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    If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always got.

  • 2. sera wrote on 15 February, 2008, 9:52
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    I used to hear a saying back in the mid 60’s in college but can’t remember it well. Might you know it? Not even sure how it began but will give it a try. It went something like this…

    “A thousand faces the the crowds but still feel alone”… or something like that? Can you help me out? Tried checking the Internet, but can’t find it anywhere. Thanks, sera :)

  • 3. Emily wrote on 3 March, 2008, 17:25
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    “College is important, but saving money can be even more important”

  • 4. Anthony Rawly wrote on 9 May, 2008, 22:12
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    I really want to learn, but college wont let me. I guess I will be down the local library come Monday morning.

  • 5. Jackie wrote on 19 January, 2009, 23:48
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    “I are a college student.” This is how stupid some college students are.

  • 6. sanddy wrote on 19 April, 2010, 18:28
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    Hard work never killed anyone, but i don’t want to be the first…

  • 7. Fallon wrote on 27 April, 2011, 17:38
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    Sera,
    It sounds a little like a Janis Joplin quote:
    On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

  • 8. mr.HEY wrote on 12 July, 2011, 20:29
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    Everyone can pass college, most just don’t feel like it.

  • 9. DANi wrote on 21 July, 2011, 20:55
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    College is like a fountain of knowledge – and the students are there to drink.

  • 10. Rashid.C.P wrote on 23 July, 2011, 11:48
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    Experience the college life and enjoy.

    You are the pawns in the first year…you are ministers in the second year…You become the king of campus in the final year.

  • 11. pragatiahluwalia wrote on 26 July, 2011, 11:38
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    College life is that part of your life that you are going to relive in your memories till you breathe.

  • 12. funsho wrote on 18 August, 2011, 16:41
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    Education is the best money making ritual!

  • 13. bala karthi wrote on 14 October, 2011, 14:48
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    College is the best place to enjoy life happily..nothing else can beat that..enjoy it friends.

  • 14. Ryann wrote on 16 October, 2011, 16:24
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    The freshman girl, oh so shy, sits and watches the sophomore guy. The sophomore guy, his head in a whirl, sits and watches the junior girl. The junior girl, in her red sedan, sits and watches the senior man. The senior man, all hot and wild, secretly loves the freshman girl.

  • 15. rabzzi wrote on 11 November, 2011, 15:43
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    College is the place where you live your life to the fullest.

  • 16. Chinu wrote on 14 December, 2011, 19:16
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    College comes and goes like a wind what is left behind is a bunch of memories which you cherish for the rest of your lives – showing it to your relatives, friends, everyone – “These Were My Golden Days. I Was The King Of My Life. Everybody Used To Call Me ‘The Ultimate Rockstar’ .Don’t Miss It And Don’t Ruin It either…Live It All !!!!”

  • 17. Soumya Menon wrote on 14 January, 2012, 7:49
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    You can make life dance to your tunes inside your college gates (i.e.during your college life) but at the other side of the gate, life sets its own tunes & makes you dance. So live each moment of your college life.

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