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 COSBYI’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!
More Bill Cosby Quotes
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
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When you carry a gun, you mean to harm somebody, kill somebody.
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Mediocre people are the most dangerous people in the world.
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A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it’s the stupid ones who need advice.
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Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
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When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?
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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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The serve was invented so that the net could play.
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Decide that you want it more than you’re afraid of it.
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That’s why ears have cartilage, to keep them from flapping.
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And so the dentist says ‘Rinse.’ So you lean over, and you’re lookin’ at this miniature toilet bowl.
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As 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.
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When you become senile, you won’t know it.
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Nobody ever says, Can I have your beets?
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