College Quotes

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in colleges, the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
- Elbert Hubbard

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
- J. Frank Dobie

That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!
- Dan Castellaneta

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- Dr. Carl Sagan

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
- Alice Miller

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.
- Barnaby C. Keeney

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
- John Ciardi

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
- P. J. O'Rourke