61 College Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing college sayings.
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Short College Sayings
“Colleges don’t make fools, they only develop them.” —George Lorimer
“College is fun as long as you don’t die.” —Tsugumi Ohba
“College is a refuge from hasty judgment.” —Robert Frost
“Many a man spends the happiest years of his life as a freshman at college.” —Unknown
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.” —Helen Keller
“Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.” —Will Rogers
“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.” —Louisa May Alcott
“College is like a fountain of knowledge – and the students are there to drink.” —Chuck Palahniuk
“It was a time when a degree was expected but not much respected.” —Pawan Mishra
“College is a refuge from hasty judgment.” —Robert Frost
“College is important, but saving money can be even more important.” —Unknown
“You can lead a boy to college but you can’t make him think.” —Elber Hubbard
“College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.” —George Gobel
“College is the place where you live your life to the fullest.” —Unknown
“An education is a wonderful thing; no college should be without one.” —Unknown
“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.” —Shelby Foote
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.” —Chuck Palahniuk
“College has given me the confidence I need to fail.” —Jarod Kintz
“I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.” —Phil Mickelson
“Don’t do drugs kids. There’s a time and place for everything. It’s called college.” —Unknown
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.” —Benjamin Disraeli
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.” —Tom Ford
“If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
“Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.” —R.S. Ingersoll
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.” —Albert Camus
“But not much in between unless a college.” —Robert Frost
College Sayings
“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.” —William James
“Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.” —Mark Twain
“When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.” —William J. Clinton
“I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.” —Fred Allen
“Colleges are like old age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” —Bob Dylan
“One funny thing about college life is that; teachers make you sleep during day and friends don’t let you to sleep at night.” —Unknown
“Education begins when your father sends you to college, and is completed when you send your son there.” —Unknown
“Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.” —John Green
“The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.” —Gordon Gee
“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.” —Brooks Atkinson
“One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it’s very complex, it’s very profound.” —Dennis Prager
“College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.” —Judd Apatow
“I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star.” —Natalie Portman
“Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.” —David Bly
“College life is that part of your life that you are going to relive in your memories till you breathe.” —Unknown
“Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for he better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.” —William James
“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.” —Dennis Rodman
“If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.” —Albert Mohler Jr.
“It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.” —Bobby Scott
“The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.” —George Horace Lorimer
“A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.” —Thomas Ehrlich
Top Ten College Sayings
Here you will find top ten College Sayings selected by our team.
- “College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.” —Judd Apatow
- “You can lead a boy to college but you can’t make him think.” —Elber Hubbard
- “Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.” —Mark Twain
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” —Nelson Mandela
- “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “One funny thing about college life is that; teachers make you sleep during day and friends don’t let you to sleep at night.” —Unknown
- “When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.” —William J. Clinton
- “Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.” —Chuck Palahniuk
- “Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.” —R.S. Ingersoll
- “Education begins when your father sends you to college, and is completed when you send your son there.” —Unknown
