Quotes from Bill Cosby

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids.

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.

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.

Parents are not interested in justice; they are interested in quiet.

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.

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

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

The serve was invented so that the net could play.

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

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.

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

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.

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.

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.

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.

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.