Bill Cosby Quotes

• Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Children, Funny

  Tags in Immortality, Comedian, Poets, Die

• It isn’t a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that’s beautiful.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Black, Beautiful, White, Matter

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

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Communication, Men

• 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

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Generations, Comedian, Famous, Music, Consequences

• 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

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Precisely, Invariably, Learns, Company

• When you become senile, you won’t know it.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Senile, Won, Become, Know

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

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny, Wedding

  Tags in Comedian, Wife, Marriage

• That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny, Wedding, Wisdom

  Tags in Comedian, Relationships, Marriage

• 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

  Topics in Gift, Memory, Wedding

  Tags in Then, Marriage

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

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Rules, Comedian, Civilization

• There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Quality, Comedian, Right, Person, Labor

• 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

  Topics in Friendship, Love

  Tags in Forgiving, Imagine

• 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

  Topics in Children, Funny

  Tags in Comedian, Telling

• 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

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Produce, Normal, Parents And Parenting, Behavior, Talking

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

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painful, Poverty, Around

• Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Immortality, First, Shot

• Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Children, Father, Joy

  Tags in Rewards, Being

• The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Parents, Quiet

• 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

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian, Eat, Proud

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

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny, Humor

  Tags in Hope, Sense

Bill Cosby (84)

Birth:	12th July, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actor, Author, Comedian, Producer

About

Bill Cosby was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is an American stand-up comedian, actor, author, and activist. Cosby's start in stand-up began at the hungry i in San Francisco which was followed by landing a starring role in the 1960s show I Spy. During its first two seasons, he was a regular on the children's television series The Electric Company. Cosby is known for creating the cartoon comedy series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in an urban area. Cosby has also been a film actor. In 1976, Cosby earned a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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