Bill Cosby Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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?
God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us.
I love Twitter, but some people use profanity so much that at some point it's like saying, 'Pass the salt.'
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.
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.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.
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!
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.
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 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.'
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 ...
If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.
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.
In all of my career, the style is still the same, and that is of a friend, just sitting and talking.
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.