WIST Quotations

Cosby, Bill -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

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

Bill Cosby (b. 1937) American comedian
(Attributed)

Cosby, Bill -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

Bill Cosby (b. 1937) American comedian
(Attributed)

Cosby, Bill -- Fatherhood, ch. 1 (1986)

Dave — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:21:31 +0000

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Bill Cosby (b. 1937) American comedian
Fatherhood, ch. 1 (1986)

Cosby, Bill -- Fatherhood, ch. 3 (1986)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Bill Cosby (b. 1937) American comedian
Fatherhood, ch. 3 (1986)

Cosby, Bill -- Fatherhood, ch. 5 (1986)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, “I love children because they’re so honest.” There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent’s signature like a child.

Bill Cosby (b. 1937) American comedian
Fatherhood, ch. 5 (1986)
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Cosby, Bill -- Love and Marriage (1989)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

The heart of marriage is memories.

Bill Cosby (b. 1937) American comedian
Love and Marriage (1989)