Bill Cosby Quotes

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

"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.

I said to a guy, I said, "Tell me, what is it about cocaine that makes it so wonderful?", and he said, "Well, it intensifies your personality." I said, "Yes, but what if you're an asshole?"

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, "This is too difficult, too hard," he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

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

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.

My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, "You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don't make no difference to me, I'll make another one look just like you."

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

People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn't that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn't that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?

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

All Children Have Brain Damage!