Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old college quotes, college sayings, and college proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.Dan Rather
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When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.William J. Clinton
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It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.Bobby Scott
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By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.Mark Pocan
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You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.Jeannette Walls
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College is fun as long as you don't die.Tsugumi Ohba
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College is a refuge from hasty judgment.Robert Frost
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For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.Bill Cosby
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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
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College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.Judd Apatow
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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.John Green
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No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.Horatio Alger
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.Jeffrey Eugenides
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I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.Tom Hanks
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College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.Tom Ford
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.Helen Keller
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College has given me the confidence I need to fail. Jarod Kintz
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If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.R. Albert Mohler Jr.
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The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?David Wood
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A college education shows a man how little other people know.Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.George Gobel
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College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drinkChuck Palahniuk
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One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's very profound.Dennis Prager
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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
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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.George Lorimer
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.R.S. Ingersoll
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.William James
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So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.Gordon Gee
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.Ossie Davis
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A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.Thomas Ehrlich
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.Anne Lamott
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The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.Robert M. Hutchins
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College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.J. Cole
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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.C. Wright Mills
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A college boy cannot successfully go through life by graduating in football, baseball, or highballs, for the responsibilities of life are not ball-bearing.William H. Murray
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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
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By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good paying job.Mark Pocan
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Colleges are like old age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.Bob Dylan
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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 Lorime
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I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.Phil Mickelson
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.Larisa Oleynik
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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
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Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.L. L. Henderson
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The chief value in going to college is that it's the only way to learn it really doesn't matter.George Edwin Howes
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Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.Elbert Hubbard
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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 Duer Miller
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It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.Thomas Edward Brown