Bill Cosby Quotes

"Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on."

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

"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."

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

"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 essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic."

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

"Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children."

"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."

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

"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."

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."

"You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any."

"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station."

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

"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."

"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."

"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing."

"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."

"Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet."