Bill Cosby Quotes

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby

Funny, Wise, Stupid

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

Success, Fear, Failure

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Success, Failure, Trying

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Bill Cosby

Funny, End, Child

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby

Forgiveness, Yourself, Forgive

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Life, Humor, Laughter

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Bill Cosby

Women, Voice, Hear

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Humor, Laughter, Through

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

Home, Children, Human

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill Cosby

Education, Good, Sex

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

Marriage, Wife, Truths

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby

Sleeping, Open, Eye

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
Bill Cosby

Humor, Funny, God

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Bill Cosby

Children, Sure, Proper

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby

Father, Children, Nothing

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
Bill Cosby

Parenting, Try, Matter

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.
Bill Cosby

Health, Food, Dead

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby

Age, Else, Coffee

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby

Peace, Justice, Parents

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Bill Cosby

Funny, Love, Pretending

Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
Bill Cosby

Keep, Kids, Though

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
Bill Cosby

Anniversary, Marriage, Heart

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

Parenting, Father, Child

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby

Love, Two, Child

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Born: July 12, 1937

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