Bill Cosby Quotes

• Gray hair is God’s graffiti.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Gray, Hair

• Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Comedian, Eye, Seeing, Sleeping

• 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

• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Afraid, Decide

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

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  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Rules, Comedian, Civilization

• 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

• Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chair, Appetite

• 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.

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  Topics in Father

  Tags in Precisely, Invariably, Learns, Company

• 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

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

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Failure, Fear, Success

  Tags in Greater, Desire

• I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

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  Topics in Success

• 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

• 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

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

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Present, Most

• Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Carry, Always, Will

• There’s no labor a man can do that’s undignified, if he does it right.

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  Topics in Work

• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

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  Tags in Advertising

• Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

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  Tags in Advertising

• A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need the advice.

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  Topics in Advice, Funny

  Tags in Stupidity

• A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.

  Bill Cosby

  Topics in Advice, Funny, Stupid, Wise

  Tags in Ones, Word, Necessary, Need

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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