Bill Cosby Quotes

9 quotations by Bill Cosby

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

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

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

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

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children.

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 Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.

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

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.