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“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
― Bill Cosby

“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
― Bill Cosby

“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”
― 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

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

“Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.”
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“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”
― Bill Cosby

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

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

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

“And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.”
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“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.”
― 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

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

“A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.”
― Bill Cosby

“gray hair is gods graffiti”
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“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”
― Bill Cosby

“I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!”
― Bill Cosby

“The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.”
― Bill Cosby

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

“ 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.”
― Bill Cosby

“A word to the wise ain't neccessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.”
― Bill Cosby

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

“Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.”
― Bill Cosby

“Nobody ever says, "Can I have your beets?”
― Bill Cosby

“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.”
― Bill Cosby

“When you become senile, you won't know it.”
― Bill Cosby

“And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head...”
― Bill Cosby

“YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.”
― Bill Cosby

“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

“...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe.”
― Bill Cosby

“It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful. ”
― 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.”
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“Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn't let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to "Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?" was not "In the men's room, Julie.”
― Bill Cosby, Love and Marriage

“Decide that you want it, more than you are afraid of it.”
― 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 Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest.”
― Bill Cosby

“All Children Have Brain Damage!”
― Bill Cosby, Childhood

“That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.”
― Bill Cosby

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

“Grey hair is God's graffiti.”
― Bill Cosby

“i was'nt always black. there was this freckel that just grew and grew...”
― Bill Cosby

“a word to the wise isn't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice.”
― Bill Cosby

“the past is a ghost,the future a dream,ang all we ever have is know,”
― Bill Cosby, Shipwreck Saturday

“I do not know the key to success, but I do know the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
― Bill Cosby

“I don't know the secret successes but the key to failure is pleasing every one.”
― Bill Cosby

“In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage.”
― Bill Cosby, Fatherhood