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The Best Funny Quotes About School Life

For some of us, school was the place where we were moulded into fine young people! For others it was merely a place we frequented so our parents wouldn’t get arrested! We not only created awesome memories and formed life long friendships, but we also learnt about Pythagoras Theorem that I have not used once as an adult! From having your first kiss, first fight, first detention and first bout of head lice, school was a place that we often look back at with rose tinted specs. Here are some funny school quotes to procrastinate your day away!

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

Edgar W. Howe

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Haruki Murakami

When I say I miss school, I mean my friends and the fun. Not the school.

Unknown

In school they told me Practice makes perfect. And then they told me Nobody's perfect, so then I stopped practicing.

Steven Wright

School means work and work means death. Let's all go take a nap.

Emma Shannon

The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

In recalling their school years, students mostly remember their teachers, and not the courses they took.

Unknown

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

Emo Philips

Nothing I learned in school prepared me for life on any level. My first book should have read, “See Dick balance his check book. See Jane leave an unhealthy relationship. Run, Jane, run!”

Kate Mason

When I look back on all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

Paul Simon

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Oscar Wilde

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Woody Allen

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.

Mark Twain

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

Paul Merton