Subject: Education (Page 3)

I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology… the study of milkmen.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

If law school is so hard to get through… how come there are so many lawyers?

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around; but when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

 This job is better than I could get if I used my college degree, which, at this point, I can't remember what it was in.

professional football player

Something very sad about the fact that I haven’t read Moby Dick, but I have read the Kindergarten Cop Wikipedia page.

(1983 – ) American comedian & actor

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

Being in politics is like being a football coach: you have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it’s important.

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

In school, every period ends with a bell… every sentence ends with a period… every crime ends with a sentence.


We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

Education: The path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know better.

One in For Kids Drops Out of High School

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

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

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

I think I’m really learning a lot from my creative writing classes; the entire experience is just indescribable.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

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

(1966 – 2011) American stand-up comedian

“The top half of the students are well-educated, the bottom half receive extra help, but the middle half we are leaving out.”

The best classroom of all times was about two car lengths behind Juan Manuel Fangio.

(1929 – ) English race car driver

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)