Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
BOB HOPEOn one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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I like to play in the low 70’s. If it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!
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It was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
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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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It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn’t know they had a caddie division.
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I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.
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I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
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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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You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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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.
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Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the same time.
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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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