Subject: Education (Page 5)

College seems like a pretty expensive way to become an alcoholic.

(1974 – ) American comedian

Adolescence is the time in life when a youngster is well informed about anything he doesn’t have to study.

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule.

(1948 – ) American writer & mathematician

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

Palestinian/American comedian

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student; at least they can find Kuwait.

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian

I think TV is very educational; every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Major: Area of study that no longer interests you.

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge… others only gargle.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

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

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

You can learn many things from children… how much patience you have for instance.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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


When I was in college, we did mushrooms and acid… and did I mention acid?

(1956 – ) comedian, television host, social critic & political commentator

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

(1706 – 1790) American statesman, author, scientist & inventor

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

(1880 – ?) American author

Being dead is one way to experience nothing, another is to attend some classes at my school.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

You might be a redneck if… you have a bumper sticker that says, "MY MOTHER'S AN HONOR STUDENT AT SOUTH LITTLE ROCK JR. HIGH."

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter