Bill Cosby Quotes - Famous Quotes by Bill Cosby
Born: 1937-07-12
Died: 0000-00-00
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A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice.
- Bill Cosby
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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."
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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Gray hair is God's graffiti.
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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I am not the boss of my house. I don't know when I lost it. I don't know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not want it.
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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so. - Playboy Interview - May 1969
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I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
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If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
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My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.
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My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!
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One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.
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People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
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Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
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