Subject: Education (Page 6)

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, it was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

You think when gym teachers are younger, they’re thinking, “You know, I want to teach, but I don’t want to read?”

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist

Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

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

American comedian, writer, producer & actor

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Education: A technique employed to open minds so that they may go from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts – Do You Want Fries With That?

The philosophy exam was a piece of cake… which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.

College was like a four-year game show called “Do My Friends Hate Me or Do I Just Need to Go to Sleep?”

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

University: A college with a stadium seating more than sixty thousand.

I took a course in speed waiting… now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.


I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

(1915 – 1987) American football player and coach

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

Can’t anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? … That’s like referring to Attila the Hun’s cavalry as “weekend warriors.”

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers; my opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.


Teacher: A disillusioned woman who used to think she liked children.

If you’re studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

How can you tell if a Korean broke into your house?… your dog is missing, and your homework is done.

(1962 – ) American television host, actress & comedian

A lot of people think kids say the darnedest things, but so would you if you had no education.

(1974 – ) Russian-born American comedian, writer & filmmaker

You might be a redneck if… your during your senior year you and your mother had homeroom together.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality