3 December 2020 Bill Cosby People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.’
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don’t believe the kids should be given homework.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
3 December 2020 Bill Cosby 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.