Bill Cosby (b. 1937)

Quotes

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

• Sigmund Freud once said, "What do women want?" The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.

• One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek.

• If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.

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

• Gray hair is God's graffiti.

• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

• I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so.

• I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

• For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

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

• Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on-a-rope.

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

• When you become senile, you won't know it.

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

• Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

• Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

• Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.

• 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.