61 Quotes By Bill Cosby


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

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 on anniversary

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

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.
Bill Cosby on business

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

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.
Bill Cosby on education

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

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

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

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

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.
Bill Cosby on family

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

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 on food

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 on forgiveness

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

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

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

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

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

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby on future