Bill Cosby Quotes (Author of Fatherhood) (2024)

“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need advice.”
― Bill Cosby

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“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ”
― Bill Cosby

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“The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.”
― Bill Cosby

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“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.”
― Bill Cosby

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“Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.”
― Bill Cosby

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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.”
― Bill Cosby

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“Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.”
― Bill Cosby

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“Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.”
― Bill Cosby

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“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”
― Bill Cosby

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“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

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“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

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“Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.”
― Bill Cosby

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“gray hair is gods graffiti”
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“Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.”
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“Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.”
― Bill Cosby, Fatherhood

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“And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.”
― Bill Cosby

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“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

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“A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.”
― Bill Cosby

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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.”
― Bill Cosby

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“I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!”
― Bill Cosby

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“If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.”
― Bill Cosby

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“The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.”
― Bill Cosby

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“In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.”
― Bill Cosby

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“Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.”
― Bill Cosby

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“A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.”
― Bill Cosby

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“ 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

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“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

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“When you become senile, you won't know it.”
― Bill Cosby

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“And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head...”
― Bill Cosby

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“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.”
― Bill Cosby

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