Bill Cosby quotes His Grammy-nominated album Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow Born: 07/12/1937 Country: usa

• 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) [take/comfort/situation/chance]
• That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked. (Bill Cosby) [day/day]
• Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet. (Bill Cosby) [parents]
• 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) [more/music/time/child]
• There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right. (Bill Cosby) [right]
• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. (Bill Cosby) [right/advertising]
• 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) [child/bathroom/company/bathroom]
• A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. (Bill Cosby)
• Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. (Bill Cosby) [start/child/willpower]
• Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger. (Bill Cosby) [appetite/danger]
• 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) [past/child/mother/speak]
• Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. (Bill Cosby)
• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. (Bill Cosby) [more]
• 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) [willpower]
• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. (Bill Cosby)
• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. (Bill Cosby) [present/love]
• Gray hair is God's graffiti. (Bill Cosby)
• Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. (Bill Cosby) [child/people/love]
• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home (Bill Cosby) [human/housing]
• 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. (Bill Cosby) [goodwill/love/love/luck]
• 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) [face]
• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (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) [wife/time]
• I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger. (Bill Cosby)
• Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first (Bill Cosby) [immortality]
• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. (Bill Cosby) [order/desire/fear]
• It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful. (Bill Cosby) [matter]
• Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. (Bill Cosby) [marriage/wife]
• Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. (Bill Cosby) [mistake/day]
• Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. (Bill Cosby) [men/women]
• My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. (Bill Cosby) [childhood/people]

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