Bill Cosby Quotes

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Interested, Comedian, Parents

• Old is always fifteen years from now.

  Bill Cosby

  Tags in Fifteen

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Immortality, First, Shot

• 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

  Topics in Age, America, Father, Funny

  Tags in Situation, Comedian, Adversity, American

• 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

• 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 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

• 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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