Quotes by Bill Cosby

“Nothing Ive ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.”

“A thought comes . . . its a true feeling, a funny feeling. And I get to develop it. [Writing] is more fun than performing, because I get to color with words.”

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

“I wasnt always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.”

“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.”

“What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? Id like to say that grandparents are Gods gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.”

“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.”

“Sigmund Freud once said, What do women want? The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.”

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

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

“Gray hair is Gods graffiti”

“It isnt a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all thats beautiful”

“A word to the wise aint necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice”

“I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those whove had luck with it and those who havent.”

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

“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.”

“The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.”

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

“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.”

“The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because theyre so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parents signature like a child.”