William Henry Cosby Jr. (/ˈkɒzbi/; born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted felon.
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.
The game of chess. Supposedly men made it up, and it's about war and men and the ravages and the bravery and the genius of commanding and moving pieces and. . . No. It's marriage. The Queen moves anywhere she wants.
In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.
The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV. " If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.
I didn't know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid.
The first-born in every family is always dreaming for an imaginary older brother or sister who will look out for them.
For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.
I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on stage, I can actually put myself into the audience and adjust my pace and tuning to them. I can get into their heads through their ears and through their eyes. Only through this total communication can I really achieve what I'm trying to do.
we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.
My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.
The three ingredients of a successful union between two. . . humor, commitment & undying love.
There are certain times of the day when you need a balance - that is, your protein and your carbs. I'm a Barry Sears man. I believe that anything green is a carb, and I need 2:1. Two of the carbs to one of the protein.
You know my father's favorite game? Come here and pull my finger.
Most fathers and. . . Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.
What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children.
The first time I came across the birds and the bees in actual flight, I couldn't identify the formation.