Famous Bill Cosby Quotations

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"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."
by Bill Cosby
"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry"
by Bill Cosby
"Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you"
by Bill Cosby
"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak she gave me a younger brother named Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest."
by Bill Cosby
"Children today know more about sex than I or my father did"
by Bill Cosby
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
by Bill Cosby
"For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked"
by Bill Cosby
"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
by Bill Cosby
"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home"
by Bill Cosby
"I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't"
by Bill Cosby
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
by Bill Cosby
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone"
by Bill Cosby
"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
by Bill Cosby
"I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so."
by 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"
by Bill Cosby
"If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it."
by Bill Cosby
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure"
by Bill Cosby
"Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge"
by Bill Cosby
"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries"
by Bill Cosby
"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children."
by Bill Cosby
"Nothing separates the generations more than musicthe time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes"
by Bill Cosby
"One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek."
by Bill Cosby
"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."
by 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."
by Bill Cosby
"The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic"
by 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"
by Bill Cosby
"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it."
by Bill Cosby
"The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now"
by Bill Cosby
"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."
by Bill Cosby
"There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God"
by Bill Cosby
"When you become senile, you won't know it"
by Bill Cosby
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it"
by Bill Cosby
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it."
by Bill Cosby
"A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice."
by Bill Cosby
"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."
by Bill Cosby
"Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage; the wife is in charge."
by Bill Cosby
"Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy."
by Bill Cosby
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
by Bill Cosby
"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."
by Bill Cosby
"Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet."
by 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."
by Bill Cosby
"I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger."
by Bill Cosby
"I don't know what the key to success is, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone."
by Bill Cosby
"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger."
by 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 a..."
by Bill Cosby
"When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a traini..."
by Bill Cosby


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