Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

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.

— Bill Cosby

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.

— Bill Cosby

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

— Bill Cosby

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.

— Bill Cosby

Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.

— Bill Cosby

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.

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

Human beings are the only creatures who allow their children to come back home.

— Bill Cosby

Old is always 15 years from now.

— Bill Cosby