Subject: Education » School

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

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

American basketball player

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

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

(1949 – 1982) American comedian, actor & musician

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

(1963 – ) American professional basketball player & sports personality

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

Lecture: A process by which the notes of the professor become the notes of the student, without passing through the minds of either.

Son, looks to me like you’re spending too much time on one subject.

college basketball coach

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

(1941 – ) American singer & songwriter

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

(1927 – ) American comedian

Teaching Latin to someone like me in high school was somewhat like trying to teach a pig to dance; it’s a waste of the teacher’s time and it irritates the pig.

U.S. Senator (1942 – 2015) U.S. senator (Tennessee) & actor

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


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

(1948 – ) American cartoonist (Doonesbury)

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

(1903 – 1966) English writer

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

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn’t have any, they gave you some.

(1956 – ) American comedian

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

You never catch on until after the test.

Hedda Hopper: How do you know so much about men?

West: Baby, I went to night school.

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

You might be a redneck if… your dad walks you to school because you’re in the same grade.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

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