Famous lines and quotations about college students and higher learning:

"I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

Woody Allen (1935 - )

 "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"

Steve Jobs (1955 - )

"That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room."

Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content

"A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life."

Reverend Edward A. Malloy, Monk's Reflections

"Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't."

L. L. Henderson

"Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

Speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

"Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."

Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), A Man without a Country

"I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing."

Gloria Steinem (1934 - )

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