Bill Cosby

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

family


Bill Cosby

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody

success


Bill Cosby

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


Bill Cosby

The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.


Bill Cosby

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


Bill Cosby

The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.


Bill Cosby

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


Bill Cosby

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


Bill Cosby

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


Bill Cosby

Gray hair is Gods graffiti.


Bill Cosby

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.


Bill Cosby

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

A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.


Bill Cosby

In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers. Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.


Bill Cosby

A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.


Bill Cosby

When you become senile, you won't know it.


Bill Cosby

All Children Have Brain Damage!


Bill Cosby

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


Bill Cosby

If you want to be seen, stand up.


Bill Cosby

If you want to be heard, speak up.


Bill Cosby

If you want to be appreciated, shut up.


Bill Cosby

Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.


Bill Cosby

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


Bill Cosby

Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.


Bill Cosby

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.


Bill Cosby

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.


Bill Cosby

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.


Bill Cosby

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


Bill Cosby

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

humor


Bill Cosby

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

success


Bill Cosby

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

age


Bill Cosby

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.

anniversary


Bill Cosby

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

best


Bill Cosby

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

business


Bill Cosby

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

education


Bill Cosby

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

education


Bill Cosby

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

failure


Bill Cosby

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

failure


Bill Cosby

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

faith


Bill Cosby

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

family


Bill Cosby

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

family


Bill Cosby

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

fear


Bill Cosby

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

forgiveness


Bill Cosby

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

funny


Bill Cosby

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

funny


Bill Cosby

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

funny


Bill Cosby

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

funny


Bill Cosby

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

future


Bill Cosby

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

god


Bill Cosby

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

god


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