Top 200 Bill Cosby Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Today’s parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.”

— Bill Cosby

152. “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

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

155. “A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.”

— Bill Cosby

156. “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

157. “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

158. “I think you need to make responsibility something that’s not just a word.”

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

160. “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

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

— Bill Cosby

162. “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

163. “It is not a matter of who is rejecting me, as much as it is somebody may get it, and I am going to keep plowing through it because in this world of education, there is a harvest.”

— Bill Cosby

164. “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

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

— Bill Cosby

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

177. “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

178. “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

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

— Bill Cosby

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

— Bill Cosby

181. “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

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

— Bill Cosby

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

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

— Bill Cosby

187. “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

188. “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

189. “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

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

— Bill Cosby

191. “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

192. “A word to the wise ain’t...”

— Bill Cosby

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

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

— Bill Cosby

196. “But if that’s what you want to be, that’s what you will be – as long as you study.”

— Bill Cosby

197. “Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.”

— Bill Cosby

198. “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

199. “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

200. “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