Subject: Education » School (Page 2)

My recipe for bad grades: don't study.

(1964 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & voice actor

As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.

If you were forced to read the book in high school, you’ll probably hate the movie too.

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


You never catch on until after the test.

I never graduated from Iowa. I was only there for two terms – Truman's and Eisenhower's.

(1935 – 2012) American football player, sports announcer & actor

In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown; the difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it.

(1948 – ) comedian, actor, writer, producer & film director

She was old too, when she went to school they didn’t have history.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

I went to medical school here at Columbia; I got my M.D.; and was practicing out in Colorado, where I decided to quit and do stand-up – and not just because of the lawsuits.

(1971 – ) American comedian, actor, television host & former physician

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

College: A four-year period when parents are permitted access to the telephone.

If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.

When I went to school, sex education was mainly muttered warnings about the janitor.

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

University: A modern school where football is taught.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn’t have any, they gave you some.

(1956 – ) American comedian

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

You might be a redneck if… your school fight song is Dueling Banjos.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

[Coedness] is like a radical agenda forced on college students.

(1969 – ) U.S. Representative (Delaware)

I failed math so many times in school, I can’t even count.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer