Bill Cosby

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Quote	Categories	Rating	Rate
"My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own parenthood, but it didn't because parenting can be learned only by people who have no children."	Learning
"When you become senile, you won't know it."	Humor
"Opportunity doesn't knock, it only presents itself after you beat down the door."	Wisdom
"You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it."	Humor, Laughter
"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."	Men
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."	Failure, Knowledge, Success
"A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice."	Knowledge, Stupidity, Wisdom
"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it."	Goals, Violence
"For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked."	Marriage
"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 Russel, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."	Age, Art, History
"People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."	Graduation, Hope, Military

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