Quotes By Bill Cosby

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

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.

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

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.

There is no job a man can do that is undignified - if he does it well.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

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.

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

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

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

I was put in remedial everything.

Kids need to remember that when you put something on Twitter, it's not like whispering to your friend, you've put it on a billboard that the whole world, including your own kids someday, can see.

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.

We've got to get the gun out of the hands of people who are supposed to be on neighborhood watch.

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

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

If you speak your mind and if it is true what you're saying, then I think the integrity of what you're saying carries through.

You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.

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.

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

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

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

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive.

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

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

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

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