Subject: Education » School (Page 2)

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

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

Graduation speeches were invented largely in the belief that college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

(1919 – 2000) Canadian prime minister & politician

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

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

In public school my daughter was voted most likely to conceive.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

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

(1972 – ) Scottish comedian

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

American football coach

My recipe for bad grades: don't study.

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

If I drop out of school, where am I gonna find drugs?

Palestinian/American comedian

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

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

professional basketball player

He reminds me of the kid in fifth grade who reminded the teacher she forgot to give the homework.

writer & comedian

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


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

80% of the final exam will be based on the one lecture you missed and the one book you didn't read.

Interviewer: Did you graduate from Auburn?
Charles: No, but I have a couple people working for me who did.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

University: A modern school where football is taught.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

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.