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 COSBYMan can not live by bread alone, he must have peanut butter.
More Bill Cosby Quotes
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Give me 200 active 2-year-olds and I could conquer the world.
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A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
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I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don’t cry over the one person who doesn’t.
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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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Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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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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Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
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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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You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.
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Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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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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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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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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