Bill Cosby Quotes

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

This is a cutthroat business full of greedy individuals who take advantage of naive young artists.

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.

Everybody's out to get something from somebody. 'Gold diggers' doesn't just mean money, it can mean time, it can mean feelings. It can mean anything when you're taking and not giving. When people don't know how to reciprocate.

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

When the systems we expect to help us actually hurt us, we have tragedy.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

It's them that take advantage that get advantage in this world.

For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make man agree to his own destruction.

He who makes another powerful ruins himself.

Kings treat men like oranges. They go for the juice, and once they have sucked them dry, they throw them aside.

Let no good deed go unpunished!

There are people who do what they believe is right, but as they say, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'

Goodness is something people take advantage of, and if you want to remain a good person for long, you should make sure that too many people don't take advantage of you because then you turn bitter.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

I don't like it when my friends get used.

Approaching people looking for something in return isn't a relationship, it's a transaction.

I’m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought ‘I’m going to go in and get him some wedges.’ I was actually doing a good deed. It’s so me to end up the other way around where I’ve done damage.