Facts about Bill Cosby 
Summary
Bill Cosby (born as William Henry Cosby, Jr. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is a famous Comedian from USA, she is still alive and was born July 12, 1937.
Biography
William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr. is an American actor and comedian. He is primarily known from the TV series Cosby (original title: The Cosby Show).
Cosby has 25 January 1964 been married to Camille Olivia Hanks who is related to the right descending part of Nancy Hanks, Abraham Lincoln's mother. He studied at Temple University and received a Ph.D. in 1976 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Cosby was the first actor of African origin who was awarded an Emmy Award. Zodiac etc.
She is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective.
Our collection contains 44 quotes who is written / told by Bill, under the main topics: Age, Funny, Home, Humor, Success.
Related authors: Abraham Lincoln
Source / external links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby
Famous quotes by Bill Cosby (44)
"Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries"
"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice"
"Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice"
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it"
"Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry"
"Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home"
"Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy"
"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"
"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework"
"Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet"
"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"
"People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on"
"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it"
"You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any"
"When you become senile, you won't know it"
"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"
"There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right"
"There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God"
"The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet"
"Old is always fifteen years from now"
"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"
"Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my 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"
"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"
"Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first"
"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"
"I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger"
"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"
"I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread"
"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"
"Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit"
"Gray hair is God's graffiti"
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope"
"Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing"
"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"
"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it"
"Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them"
"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.""
"Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger"
"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"
"Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge"
"It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful"
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody"
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure"
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