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Bill Cosby

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Bill Cosby (born 1937) is an American comedian, actor, and author who became one of the most influential comedians of the 20th century. Known for his storytelling style and observational humor, Cosby broke racial barriers in television and entertainment throughout his career.

“I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.”

— Bill Cosby

Love

All Quotes by Bill Cosby

“Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.”

— Bill Cosby

Love

“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

Parenting

“Gray hair is God's graffiti.”

— Bill Cosby

God

“Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.”

— Bill Cosby

Men

“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

Hope

“The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.”

— Bill Cosby

Anniversary

“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

Parenting

“Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.”

— Bill Cosby

Age

“Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'”

— Bill Cosby

Success

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

— Bill Cosby

Marriage

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

— Bill Cosby

Funny

“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

Music

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

— Bill Cosby

Future

“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”

— Bill Cosby

Humor

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

— Bill Cosby

Failure

“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

Love

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

— Bill Cosby

Funny

“The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.”

— Bill Cosby

Future

“Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.”

— Bill Cosby

Education

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

— Bill Cosby

Funny