Quotes By Bill Cosby

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

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

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

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.

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

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."

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

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

When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

I'm old, not dead.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

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

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked.

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

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

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.