Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.
BILL COSBYNever forget that the devil is there 24/7 too. He’s very, very busy.
More Bill Cosby Quotes
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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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All parents experience the same problems.
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The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!
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Violence won’t solve a thing. It makes it more challenging to solve, though.
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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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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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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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Nobody ever says, Can I have your beets?
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Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.
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Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.
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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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No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I’m not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
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