Bill Cosby was an American comedian, actor, and author. He was best known for his stand-up comedy, television sitcoms, and films. He was also a pioneer in the genre of comedy albums, creating the first full-length comedy album in 1964. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Bill Cosby on education, money, love.
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby Image Quotes
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. — Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Short Quotes
Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.
A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.
There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
You can't be everything to everyone
Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby Quotes About Education
we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else. — Bill Cosby
I was a physical education major with a child psychology minor at Temple, which means if you ask me a question about a child's behavior, I will advise you to tell the child to take a lap. — Bill Cosby
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. — Bill Cosby
All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts. — Bill Cosby
The summit, which is set up to educate people about managing their money and protecting their income, leads to empowerment of self, for which this summit needs to be applauded. — Bill Cosby
It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest. — Bill Cosby
Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do. — Bill Cosby
These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round. — Bill Cosby
Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts. — Bill Cosby
The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure. — Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Quotes About Love
The heart of marriage is memories. — Bill Cosby
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. — Bill Cosby
The three ingredients of a successful union between two ... humor, commitment & undying love. — Bill Cosby
In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage. — Bill Cosby
Fatherhood is telling your daughter that Michael Jackson loves all his fans, but has special feelings for the ones who eat broccoli. — Bill Cosby
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much. — Bill Cosby
I love it when mothers get so mad they can't remember your name. "Come here, Roy, er, Rupert, er, Rutabaga... what is your name, boy? And don't lie to me, because you live here, and I'll find out who you are." — Bill Cosby
My children love my mother, and I tell my children, that is not the same woman I grew up with...That is an old woman trying to get into heaven now. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
Any husband who says, "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge. — Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Quotes About Humorous
After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't." — Bill Cosby
There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God. — Bill Cosby
Nobody ever says, "Can I have your beets? — Bill Cosby
You can teach an old dog new tricks. You just don't want to see the dog doing them. — Bill Cosby
I'm not the boss of my house. I don't know how I lost it, I don't know when I lost it, I don't really think I ever had it. But I've seen the boss's job...and I don't want it! — Bill Cosby
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. — Bill Cosby
Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter. — Bill Cosby
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. — Bill Cosby
Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn't let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to "Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?" was not "In the men's room, Julie. — Bill Cosby
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - even poverty - you can survive it. — Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Quotes About Humor
Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire. — Bill Cosby
Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge. — Bill Cosby
Now, this is the fun part about getting stoned. They get stoned, then they become paranoid. Now, when they started out, they said, "Let's get high and have fun." So they're high; now they're paranoid. "Am I falling out of this chair?" — Bill Cosby
"And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I said, "And tired." I don't remember anything after that. — Bill Cosby
My mother comes in my room and says, "Just look at this mess! This is a pig sty!" Now, I've already been in the room five hours, and she wants me to LOOK at it. — Bill Cosby
A person with no children says, "Well I just love children," and you say "Why?" and they say, "Because a child is so truthful, that's what I love about 'em - they tell the truth." That's a lie, I've got five of 'em. The only time they tell the truth is if they're having pain. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first thing they grab is an iron hook. — Bill Cosby
The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation. — Bill Cosby
My father would pass gas and then blame it on imaginary animals. — Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Quotes About Children
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home. — Bill Cosby
Our children are angry. The profanity is out in the street. It's on the buses and in the subway. Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children. — Bill Cosby
One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children-unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek. — Bill Cosby
When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra. — Bill Cosby
Laughter brings out the child in all of us. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Quotes About Parenting
No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal. — Bill Cosby
Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet. — Bill Cosby
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet. — Bill Cosby
On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live. — Bill Cosby
We parents ask dumb questions, therefore we get dumb answers. — Bill Cosby
If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ..." You were never their age. You were older in the womb. — Bill Cosby
Some authority on parenting once said, "Hold them very close and then let them go." This is the hardest truth for a father to learn: that his children are continuously growing up and moving away from him (until, of course, they move back in). — Bill Cosby
Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you. — Bill Cosby
Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand. — Bill Cosby
Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. — Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Quotes About Child
Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in. — Bill Cosby
If you listen carefully to what a child is saying to you, you'll see that he has a point to make. So I listen. And I answer them just as seriously as possible. And if I don't know the answer, I'll tell them I don't know. — Bill Cosby
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree. — Bill Cosby
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." — Bill Cosby
A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student. — Bill Cosby
My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to the children... This was the same man who, when I was his child, I would ask him for 50 cents, this man would tell me his life's story. — Bill Cosby
A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child. — Bill Cosby
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it. — Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Quotes About Failure
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. — Bill Cosby
Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby Famous Quotes And Sayings
The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up. — Bill Cosby
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. — Bill Cosby
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries. — Bill Cosby
I can't even talk the way these people talk. 'Why you ain't?' 'Where you is?' Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. — Bill Cosby
Violence won't solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though. — Bill Cosby
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge. — Bill Cosby
I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger. — Bill Cosby
The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic. — Bill Cosby
A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. — Bill Cosby
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. — Bill Cosby
My latest blood test said my cholesterol was very high and my doctor recommended some medicine for it. I said "no" to his recommendation and he said "what are you going to do?" I said I ate my way into this and I'm going to eat my way out of it. — Bill Cosby
When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first? — Bill Cosby
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it. — Bill Cosby
Never forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He's very, very busy. — Bill Cosby
My eleven year old daughter mopes around the house all day waiting for her breasts to grow. — Bill Cosby
That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked. — Bill Cosby
The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath. — Bill Cosby
Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy. — Bill Cosby
People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices." — Bill Cosby
My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying I love you. His love had to do with the way he treated you. When he said, We're going here, we're going there, he was telling me about life. That was his love for me. My love for him was listening to what he said, keeping out of trouble, doing right, being fair. — Bill Cosby
It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. — Bill Cosby
The essence of childhood, of course, is play. — Bill Cosby
The serve was invented so that the net could play. — Bill Cosby
Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head. — Bill Cosby
My feeling is, personally, I want to die first... because I believe that when you die, your soul goes immediately up for judgment - and I don't want my wife up there first. No, the judgment will be horrendous. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time! — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
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. — Bill Cosby
No matter what you think-life goes on and the world still turns and the universe has its own story. The most we can do is plan anyway, but understand, be humbled by things greater than ourselves. — Bill Cosby
We are the only animals that let our kids come back home. — Bill Cosby
That's why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping. — Bill Cosby
I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do. — Bill Cosby
People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often. — Bill Cosby
A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm Negro. And we both see things the same way. That must mean that we are alike..... So I figure I'm doing as much for good race relations as the next guy. — Bill Cosby
...it was the arts, those noble expressions of the human spirit that are communicated through literature, dance, song, film, drama, painting and sculpture, among the many other such creative means, that helped articulate the sufferings of [these] people that were heard around the globe. — Bill Cosby
A Hoyo de Monterrey double corona is my favourite Cuban since Desi Arnaz. — Bill Cosby
My mother was an authority on pig sties. This is the worst looking pigsty I have ever seen in my life, and I want it cleaned up right now. — Bill Cosby
Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. — Bill Cosby
I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way. — Bill Cosby
God has a sense of humor though and he must see funny things in us. He must also have some love. We're still here and there are still great things that go on. There are great doctors who discover how to separate twins and how to put together a human being to walk again after it's said he won't. Those are all there as signs. — Bill Cosby
When we look at the settling of America we see a Bible in hand and God. Every Thanksgiving has God and the peacefulness of gratitude. It was important when the Twin Towers were hit and the sorrow with them that the first thing Congress did was sing "God Bless America." — Bill Cosby
Fatherhood is helping your children learn English as a foreign language. — Bill Cosby
There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living. There still aren't enough people that say "this should not be." We just let it go. We need to raise a loud voice about our fellow human beings. — Bill Cosby
In Genesis, it is stated God walked on Earth. He was there on the level. After watching human behavior, he ascended having had enough of us and decided to watch over us instead. — Bill Cosby
In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday! — Bill Cosby
The beautiful thing about older people is their ability to cut the fat off of conversation. When they talk, they don't go on forever and ever. They say what they have to say, and that's it. That was my grand dad. Some of the things he said stunned me, but his words were logical. I'll never forget them. — Bill Cosby
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made. — Bill Cosby
In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee. — Bill Cosby
Life Lessons by Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby taught us to always stay true to ourselves and to never give up on our dreams. He also encouraged us to be kind and generous to others, and to always strive to make the world a better place.
He also reminded us to appreciate the little things in life and to never take anything for granted.
Finally, he taught us to always be humble and to remember that laughter is the best medicine.
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