Top 200 Bill Cosby Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.”

— Bill Cosby

152. “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

153. “The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn’t identify the formation.”

— Bill Cosby

154. “It’s more blessed to give than to receive – especially kittens.”

— Bill Cosby

155. “Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.”

— Bill Cosby

156. “We’re not raising children with the love that we need to.”

— Bill Cosby

157. “When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.”

— Bill Cosby

158. “When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.”

— Bill Cosby

159. “Today’s parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.”

— Bill Cosby

160. “There should be marches in every neighborhood every day telling the people about the negativity of drugs and how the drugs help us to behave negatively.”

— Bill Cosby

161. “Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.”

— Bill Cosby

162. “Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.”

— Bill Cosby

163. “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.”

— Bill Cosby

164. “When I say, I don’t care what white people think, I mean that.”

— Bill Cosby

165. “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.”

— Bill Cosby

166. “I use the exercise room early, because I don’t want to get on the treadmill and everyone’s going ‘Oh, Bill Cosby,’ and then they come around to see how fast I’m walking, and it becomes very competitive.”

— Bill Cosby

167. “The wisest married men give in early. They get in touch with the wife side of themselves, and that’s when they stop arguing.”

— Bill Cosby

168. “Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.”

— Bill Cosby

169. “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.”

— Bill Cosby

170. “You are more important to yourself than you think you are.”

— Bill Cosby

171. “I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.”

— Bill Cosby

172. “I wanted to give the house back to the parents.”

— Bill Cosby

173. “What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in.”

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

175. “If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.”

— Bill Cosby

176. “There are certain times of the day when you need a balance – that is, your protein and your carbs. I’m a Barry Sears man. I believe that anything green is a carb, and I need 2:1. Two of the carbs to one of the protein.”

— Bill Cosby

177. “I’m not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I’m healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don’t want to eat, but I eat it because I’m enjoying staying alive.”

— Bill Cosby

178. “With my wife Camille’s help, I took to social networking. I’m working with the computers.”

— Bill Cosby

179. “Parenting needs to come to the forefront.”

— Bill Cosby

180. “The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.”

— Bill Cosby

181. “And to those people with no children but who think they’d like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.”

— Bill Cosby

182. “People should fact check. People shouldn’t have to go through that and shouldn’t answer to innuendos.”

— Bill Cosby

183. “Repeat after me. I promise not to run outside of the house. I promise not to run inside of the house. I promise not to touch, pick up, step on, anything that looks interesting.”

— Bill Cosby

184. “Anyone who has brought up children knows that consistency has absolutely nothing to do with discipline.”

— Bill Cosby

185. “Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.”

— Bill Cosby

186. “I’m a Christian. But Muslims are misunderstood. Intentionally misunderstood. We should all be more like them.”

— Bill Cosby

187. “A baseball manager has learned a lot about his job from having played the game, but a parent has not learned a thing from having once been a child.”

— Bill Cosby

188. “Our children are trying to tell us something, and we are not listening.”

— Bill Cosby

189. “My wife and I have five children. And the reason why we have five children is because we do notwantsix.”

— Bill Cosby

190. “We parents ask dumb questions, therefore we get dumb answers.”

— Bill Cosby

191. “You are not going to ‘go forth.’ You are going to take that damn hat off and you’re going to get a job.”

— Bill Cosby

192. “In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.”

— Bill Cosby

193. “I didn’t know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.”

— Bill Cosby

194. “A father has to do everything in his power to keep a tight ship, even though he knows the crew would like to send him away in a dinghy.”

— Bill Cosby

195. “A word to the wise ain’t...”

— Bill Cosby

196. “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.”

— Bill Cosby

197. “All men should freely use those seven words which have the power to make any marriage run smoothly: You know dear, you may be right.”

— Bill Cosby

198. “It’s painful, but we can’t heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.”

— Bill Cosby

199. “Have you ever had a cookie? Then you won’t get any here either.”

— Bill Cosby

200. “I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, “Dad, I just can’t run the quarter with you anymore, unless I bring something to read.””

— Bill Cosby