I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
BOB HOPESure Vietnam is a dirty war. I’ve never heard of a clean one.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I can’t give up Golf, I’ve got too many sweaters.
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Bing Crosby and I weren’t the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other.
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The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
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Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you’ll promise her anything.
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My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
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I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
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Lots of travel, away from home.
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It’s not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course – you just follow the wounded.
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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra.
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I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
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At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
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There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
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I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
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By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I’ve been doing that all my life.
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As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window.
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She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.
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I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, ‘What do I do next?’ Pat replied, ‘Wait till the pain dies down.’
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It’s a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you’ll be able to watch it all on TV.
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The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn’t got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.
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There’s a very apt saying in show business: “If you don’t go over budget in Paris, you’re either very rich or very sick. “
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