Bill Cosby: Trending quotes (page 2)

“I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!”

“The worst thing to do is to die while reading LIFE magazine.”

“If you want to be seen, stand up.
If you want to be heard, speak up.
If you want to be appreciated, shut up.”

“In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and… mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.”

“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.”

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.”

“When you become senile, you won't know it.”

“And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl… there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go…'… if it hadn't been for his head…”

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

“It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.”

“Nobody ever says, "Can I have your beets?”

“YOU are a genius!… and I am a genius because I married you.”

“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.”

“Old is always fifteen years from now.”

“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.”

“When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?”

“All Children Have Brain Damage!”

“Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.”

“I’m supposed to figure out if the glass is half full or half empty,” I told her.

Without a moment’s hesitation, in a split second, my grandmother shrugged and said: “It depends on if you’re drinking or pouring.”