I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood.
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.