Subject: Education (Page 4)

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

(1980 – ) cartoonist

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

(1919 – 1991) American comedian & actor

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

After I failed my second test, I grabbed my teacher by the front of the shirt and said “Are you ‘trying’ to keep this shit a secret?”

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

Dan Quayle is going around the country giving C students a bad name.

American comedian, writer, producer & actor

There is no direct relationship between the quality of an educational program and its cost.

Education with socialists: it’s like sex, all right so long as you don’t have to pay for it

English author, actor, humorist & playwright

Dad taught me everything I know; unfortunately, he didn’t teach me everything he knows.

(1962 – ) American race car driver

Our school color was manila.

comedian

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

(1882 – 1950) American attorney, politician, liberal activist & actor

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.


When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

(1895 – 1964) comedian (wife & partner of George Burns)

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything.

Hedda Hopper: How do you know so much about men?

West: Baby, I went to night school.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

(1974 – ) American comedian

Teachers: United Mind Workers.

Men are like textbooks: you have to spend a lot of time between the covers to gain a small amount of satisfaction.

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia; not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.


(1919 – 1990) American boxing champion

If we really learned from our past mistakes, most of us would never get out of bed in the morning.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine