To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.
— George W. Bush
People will frighten you about a graduation….They use words you don’t hear often… “And we wish you Godspeed.” It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
— Bill Cosby
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
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
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
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
— Doug Larson
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor.
— James D’arcy
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
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
— Source Unknown
I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I’d be a college graduate today.
— George Foreman
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
— Robert Goheen
You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom.
— Proverb
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
— Oscar Wilde
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. Lawrence Lowell
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
Words of Wisdom:
- The sea, by its nature, be still and quiet if the winds do not stirred and troubled. In the same way the people would be quiet and docile if not seditious speakers and removed it and shake.
- I think people, when is intelligent and completely normal, do not pretend being rare and strange, because the absurd invented.
- Falsehood and dissimulation are useful in social life. I have this condition had not, and I think that not having one has hurt me more than anything else. I was also slightly injured when dealing with friends and strangers, not having solemnly.
- Stark contrast between the crackle of fire in its beginning and peace of ash.
- The lives of the rich are ultimately as boring and monotonous, simply because they can choose what is to happen. They are bored because they are omnipotent … The thing which keeps life romantic and full of fiery possibilities is the existence of such vulgar major limitations that require us all to face the things we like and do not expect.
- The modern ability not to hide the emotion, but in affect it.
- The fundamental psychological truth is that no man is a hero to his valet. The fundamental psychological truth, the foundation of Christianity is that no man can be a hero to himself.
- A youth can be kept continually thinking of vice in the disease. It can be kept constantly in mind the Virgin Mary. You will be able to discuss which of the two methods is more reasonable, or even what is most effective. But there can be no argument about which is the healthiest.
- I always put on a diet, just like every week I quit.
- Latos is what takes away the loneliness and not give us company.
