Russian Graduate
Higher education in Russia
University degree granted to a Politburo member in 1925
QuotaBillsI go to school the youth to learn the future. - Robert Frost
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age. - Malcolm Muggeridge
All women are crazy, it's only a question of degree. - WC Fields
We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back. - Bob Hope
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go. - Bill Watterson
Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit. - Aristippus
Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. - Irwin Edman
Show me where Stalin is born, and I'll show you a communist plot. - George S. Kaufman
I will study and prepare myself… and someday my chance will come. - Abraham Lincoln
Study nature. Love nature. Stay close to nature. It will never fail you. - Frank Lloyd Wright
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. - George Gobel
Society produces rogues and education makes one rogue cleverer than another. - Oscar Wilde
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. - Bertrand Russell
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- C S Lewis
It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. - Bill Vaughan
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Martin Barzun
It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test. - Elbert Hubbard
The real test of your character is your treatment of those who can be of no possible service to you. - Unknown
This is the first test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him. - William Lyon Phelps
The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats. - Jean Kerr
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. - Robert Frost
Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. - Bill Vaughan
Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor. - Abe Lemons
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - George Burns
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? - Lynette Mather
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right. - Jack Nicholson
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. - Lady Nancy Astor
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. - Flannery O'Connor
This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. - Hubert H. Humphrey
That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence. - Leonard Nimoy
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry; lost knowledge by study; lost health by temperance or medicine; but lost time is gone forever. - Samuel Smiles
A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh. - Conan O'Brien
Education commences on the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. - Hosea Ballou
I was thrown out of college during my freshman year, for cheating on my metaphysics final - I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. - Woody Allen
In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One. - Yakov Smirnoff
If you want to succeed, worry less about what college you get into and more about doing your homework, taking care of your chores and being nice to other people. - Jay Mathews
I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy. - David Niven
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come. - Dave Kellett
I think education is power. I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves. - Oprah Winfrey