Subject: Education » School (Page 5)

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up an answer.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

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

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach

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

(1903 – 1966) English writer

Before he died my father told me he never really walked to school without any shoes.

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

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

Palestinian/American comedian

They put me in Special Ed because they thought I was slow, but I stayed in Special Ed for the ladies.

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

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

(1927 – ) American comedian

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

American basketball player

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

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

(1898 – 1971) English classical scholar & academic

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

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

writer & comedian

Don’t marry a man to reform him; that’s what reform schools are for.

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

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

The more studying you did for the exam, the less sure you are as to which answer they want.

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

(1941 – ) American singer & songwriter

He is so old… when he was in school they didn’t teach history!

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

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

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

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