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What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who've given up.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

Grandparents are God's gifts to children.

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

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

If a white man falls off a chair drunk, it's just a drunk.
If a Negro does, it's the whole damn Negro race.

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.

Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago!

Well, I really don't know what the secret of success is but I can tell you that the secret of failure is to try to please everyone.

When I say, I don't care what white people think, I mean that.

My wife was a beautiful woman before we had children.

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

Every father says the same thing: "Where's your mother?"

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.

Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

I wanted to give the house back to the parents.

It's more blessed to give than to receive
especially kittens.

Social networking helps reach people easier and quicker.

I think if a 30-year-old Bill Cosby sat on stage with a 72-year-old Bill Cosby, they would enjoy each other.

If I use the word romance, whether it's my wife or not, it does not mean sex. We can use the word sex when sex is there.

My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.

When I look at 55 percent of our black men dropping out of school, how bad off are we going to be when we need some lawyers?

Nobody ever says, "Can I have your beets?

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us.

You come to my comedy show to be entertained.

gray hair is gods graffiti

I don't wear no condom and I don't plan for no kids.

I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.'

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

Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.

Romance is a different word than sexual contact.

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

Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge.

I'm a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.

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

Every romance does not lead to sex.

I've got a Ferrari. VROOM! I do 104 from the garage to the front door.

You are not going to 'go forth.' You are going to take that damn hat off and you're going to get a job.

If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

I'm old, not dead.

We parents ask dumb questions, therefore we get dumb answers.

I don't spend my hours worrying how to slip a social message into my act.

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

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.

Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Zip zop wop boopity bop.

You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them.

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

You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.

You also notice that the right side of your face feels like it's sliding off of your skull. And your bottom lip is in your lap!

You can not make everybody happy..

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

There's a gap between people knowing what I do and really believing that I still do that - and wondering what it is I really do.

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

Old is always fifteen years from now.

I managed my life to the point that at age 19 I was still in high school. I decided I was too old to be walking down those hallways.

In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

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

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.

Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

The problem is that your daughter has given her heart to a 15-year-old boy, and a 15-year-old boy does not yet qualify as a human being.

People say to me, 'Do you know who you look like?' And I say, 'I'm really tired of looking like that guy.'

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

I'm not saying looting is good, ... But I'm saying surely at a time when your child needs diapers and you need food, when does looting stop ...

People will frighten you about a graduation ... They use words you don't hear often ...

It was hard for me, being in school. And nobody was there to tell me how important it was.

My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals.

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

A pelican that is wet walks with a gated limp, but a dry fish swims alone.

Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids.

The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.

Sometimes I buy my wife flowers.

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

Everybody is not a victim.

A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.

In all of my career, the style is still the same, and that is of a friend, just sitting and talking.

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

I don't have a clue about the way to achievement, however the way to disappointment is attempting to please everyone.

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love.

Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language.

My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow.

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.

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

The serve was invented so that the net could play.

Nobody asked you to flip burgers for the rest of your life.

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

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

We go out of our way to make people so different, ... to punish them because of color, because of sex, because of size, and the game starts.

'Don't worry about senility', my grandfather used to say.

Pay off your student loan. Even if you don't have a job ... Because when you finally get a job you're going to be one of us.