Alma mater Quote by Sarah Vowell

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you…

— Ernest Cline

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity.

— Greg Gutfeld

A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

— Henry Ford

“Savage was still hustling, but was now attending ASA Charter School, and was a few credits away from gradu”

— M.J. Cannabliss

“It reminded me of how I’d felt applying to college. Night after night, I sat with my father in his study while he read…

— Melissa Bank

“I need you to use Radar's login to the student directory and look up an address. Chuck Parson." "No." "Please," I said. "No." "You'll…

— John Green

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. [“The Power of Christian Young Men”, Address at…

— Woodrow Wilson

“Like the college professor he was, Kittredge groped only for big words, and, finding no apt ones, he coined a lot of untranslatable new…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

— Anonymous

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

— Lady Gregory