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Quotes by Bill Cosby

  • I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
  • The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.
  • Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
  • A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
  • The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.