Quotes by Bill Cosby

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.

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.

My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn’t because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

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.

Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.

We’re not raising children with the love that we need to.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who’ve had luck with it and those who haven’t.