Subject: Education » School (Page 2)

With one or two exceptions, colleges expect their players of games to be reasonably literate.

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

Anatomy: A class that sounds vaguely risqué until you find out what it really involves.

When reviewing your notes before an exam, the most important will be illegible.

Graduate School: The place where a young scholar goes off his Dad’s payroll – and on to his wife’s.

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

American basketball coach & executive

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

(1941 – ) American singer & songwriter

You might be a redneck if… you refer to the fifth grade as “my senior year.”

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

A statesman is any politician it’s considered safe to name a school after.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

When I was recruited at Auburn, they took me to a strip joint; when I saw those titties on Buffy, I knew that Auburn met my academic requirements.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

The book or periodical most vital to the completion of your term paper will be missing from the library.

Corollary: If it is available, the most important page will be torn out.

Interviewer: Auburn is a pretty good school; to graduate from there I suppose you really need to work hard and put forth maximum effort.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

Pocket calculator batteries that have lasted all semester will fail during the math final.

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)

You never catch on until after the test.

I spent three of the happiest years of my life in the fifth grade.

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

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


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

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