College Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Martin H. Fischer
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| 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 |
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| A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep. |
| - W.H. Auden |
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| I have a degree in liberal arts. Do you want fries with that? |
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| If you have a college degree you can be absolutely sure of one thing... you have a college degree. |
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| The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. |
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| Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. |
| - John Ciardi |
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| Hitler destroyed the German university with design; we destroyed ours without. |
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| Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| The new appears as a minority point of view, and hence is unpopular. The function of a university is to give it a sanctuary. |
| - Martin H. Fischer |
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| College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. |
| - George Gobel |
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| The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. |
| - Russell Green |
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| A college education shows a man how little other people know. |
| - Thomas Chandler Haliburton |
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| The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure. |
| - Sydney J. Harris |
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| College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation. |
| - Robert Maynard Hutchins |
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| A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. |
| - Robert Greene Ingersoll |
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| I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's. |
| - Alex Karras |
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| A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000. |
| - Leonard L. Levinson |
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| I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. |
| - Agnes de Mille |
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| No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. |
| - J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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| Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner. |
| - Will Rogers |
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| A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. |
| - Theodore Roosevelt |
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| I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. |
| - Peter De Vries |
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