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College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, Coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust.

» Anonymous (-)

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

» Anonymous (-)

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

» Doris Lessing (1919-?) British writer

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

» George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher and poet Born in Madrid]

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

» Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.

» Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist

This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much better, for study is the last pursuit of the society; the Master eats, drinks, and sleeps, the Fellows drink, di

» Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet and politician

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

» Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) British poet and cultural critic

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can

» Peter Abelard (1079-1142) French theologian and philosopher

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful saints.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

» Robert Frost (1874-1963) American Poet

The men - the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

» Anonymous (-)

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

» D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English writer. 'Women in Love', 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'

To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

» Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-born American political philosopher

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds: a Harvard education and a Yale degree.

» John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th President of the USA [ Assassinated in Dallas]

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

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