Bill Cosby Quotes

• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Present, Most

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chair, Appetite

• 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

  Topics in Age, Art, Funny, History

  Tags in Comedian, Eggs

• 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

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Situation, Survival, Hope

• Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Allow, Earth, Home

• 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

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Taught, Childhood

• 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

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Essence, Comedian, Endlessly, Friends, Childhood

• Gray hair is God’s graffiti.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in God

  Tags in Gray, Hair

• Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Interested, Comedian, Parents

• 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

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Invading, Sarenting, Russia, Guess

• I wasn’t always black… there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Always, Black, Comedian, Bigger

• Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women
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  My children love my mother, and i tell my children ” that is not the same woman i grew up with… That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now.”

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Try, Heaven

• Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don’t believe the kids should be given homework.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Children, Education, Funny

  Tags in Comedy

• You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who’ve never had any.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian

• The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Future, Goal

• 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

  Topics in Funny, Mistake

  Tags in Generation, Comedian

• Old is always fifteen years from now.

  Bill Cosby

  Tags in Fifteen

• 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

  Topics in Funny, Love

  Tags in Authority, Comedian

• Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

  Bill Cosby

  Tags in Irrational

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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