Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cosby

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

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bill Cosby

A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.

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A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.

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Gray hair is God's graffiti.

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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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The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.

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Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.

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Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn't let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to "Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?" was not "In the men's room, Julie.

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I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it!

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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.

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I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. "Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga... what is your name, boy? And don't lie to me, because you live here, and I'll find out who you are."

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The dentist drills some more and you hear him make a mistake. And to cover it up, they all say the same thing: "Okay, rinse."

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A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain.

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The weatherman is always right. It's just his timing that's off.

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The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.

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Now, this is the fun part about getting stoned. They get stoned, then they become paranoid. Now, when they started out, they said, "Let's get high and have fun." So they're high; now they're paranoid. "Am I falling out of this chair?"

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My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.

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"And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I said, "And tired." I don't remember anything after that.

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My mother comes in my room and says, "Just look at this mess! This is a pig sty!" Now, I've already been in the room five hours, and she wants me to LOOK at it.

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My wife was a beautiful woman before we had children.

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When you're a father you censor yourself. You get just as angry with a child but you don't want to say, "What the filth and foul and I'll filth and foul, filth and foul and, yeah, ya filth and foul face, and I'll filth and foul, foul, filth!" You don't want to say that to a child so you censor yourself and you sound like an idiot: "What the... Get your... I'll put a... Get out of my face!"

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Old is always fifteen years from now.

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

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I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

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

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