Bill Cosby Quotes: 14

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

• There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

• 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.

• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

• 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.

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

• In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

• Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

• 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.

• gray hair is gods graffiti

• And so the dentist says 'Rinse.' So you lean over, and you're lookin' at this miniature toilet bowl.

• Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.

• George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

• A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.