Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells ‘Fore!’ the guy he’s hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
BOB HOPEGolf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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We didn’t know that in America after the war, you wouldn’t be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
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I’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
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Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn’t get elected, he’d go back to acting.
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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes.
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I don’t know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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It’s amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn’t sell theirs threw them away.
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Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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It’s so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
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Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn’t hear them.
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I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
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Lots of travel, away from home.
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I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.
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