Bill Cosby

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

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

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

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Gray hair is God's graffiti.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

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

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

I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior.

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.

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.

We're not raising children with the love that we need to.

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

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

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

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

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

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

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.

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