The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
BILL COSBYHuman beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
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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Never forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He’s very, very busy.
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Suddenly, this romantic agony was enriched by a less romantic one: I had to go to the bathroom. Needless to say, I couldn’t let her know about this urge, for great lovers never did such things. The answer to Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Was not In the men’s room, Julie.
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The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
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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.
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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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I was’nt always black. There was this freckel that just grew and grew.
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I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl there’s a little voice that say, ‘I wonder where he would go if it hadn’t been for his head.
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Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.
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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.
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It is a point of pride for the American male to keep the same size jockey shorts for his entire life.
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Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice.
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