High school proverbs

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◆ Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

- Frank Zappa99

◆ High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

- Stephen King99

◆ In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn't good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.

- Kami Garcia99

◆ High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

- John Mayer99

◆ High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

- John Green99

◆ Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.

- Lish McBride99

◆ Problem is, the bathroom pass can't help you escape life. It's still there when you come out. Problems and crap don't go away hiding in the can.

- Simone Elkeles99

◆ In high school I got voted most likely to get voted for something. Even though I was the only one who voted, it still felt terrific being nominated.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.

- Elizabeth Scott99

◆ In high school I tried out for the spelling team, but only because I really wanted a letter jacket.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

- Courtney Summers99

◆ I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

- Elizabeth Scott99

◆ High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

- Scott Westerfeld99

◆ The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.

- Laurie Halse Anderson99