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.
BILL COSBYAs I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.
More Bill Cosby Quotes
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People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.
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Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
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The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
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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.
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When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.
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Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
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I’m not the boss of my house. I don’t know how I lost it, I don’t know when I lost it, I don’t really think I ever had it. But I’ve seen the boss’s job and I don’t want it!
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Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you’re pouring, or drinking.
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You are a genius! and I am a genius because I married you.
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Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
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Nobody ever says, Can I have your beets?
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