Bill Cosby

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

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

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
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

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

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

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

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

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

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework.
Bill Cosby

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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

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

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.
Bill Cosby

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

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.
Bill Cosby

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

Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Bill Cosby

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

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
Bill Cosby

I want to die before my wife, and the reason is this: If it is true that when you die, your soul goes up to judgment, I don't want my wife up there ahead of me to tell them things.
Bill Cosby

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

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby

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

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

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

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.
Bill Cosby

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Bill Cosby

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

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.
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

Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.
Bill Cosby

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
Bill Cosby

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby

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 interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.
Bill Cosby

In spite of the seven thousands books of expert advice, the right way to discipline a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
Bill Cosby