College proverbs

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◆ I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.

- Dodie Smith99

◆ Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

- John Green99

◆ Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

- Rainbow Rowell99

◆ But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

- Chuck Palahniuk99

◆ I don't think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned!

- J.D. Salinger99

◆ The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

- John Green99

◆ Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

- Bernard Branson99

◆ Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

- Oscar Wilde99

◆ You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they've taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can't understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don't have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ I am kind of majoring in bull shitting.

- Kate Voegele99

◆ I'm a man of leisure. That's because I have an English degree and can't get a job.?

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ 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 Wood99

◆ Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.

- Abbie Hoffman99

◆ You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.

- L. Frank Baum99

◆ 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 Walls99