Bill Cosby on family

Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.

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

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

The family you come from isn’t as important as the family you’re going to have.

Ring Lardner1885–1933

Men are what their mothers made them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Fate

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