Funny Quotes - Graduation

"Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed."
        —Erma Bombeck

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
        —Theodore Roosevelt

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"A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep."
        —W.H.Auden

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
        —A. Lawrences Lowell

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
        —Unknown Author

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
        —G. K. Chesterton

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake," he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much."
        —Anthony Lake

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
        —Unknown Author

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
        —Garry Trudeau

The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion- these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
        —Jerome Seymour Bruner

Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
        —Gary Bolding

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
        —Robert Orben

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future.
        —Plato

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
        —Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
        —William Arthur Ward