Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life.
BOB HOPEWe’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t come to Vietnam, I’d send for it.
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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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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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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 went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
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Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
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It’s very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight – and that was just their hair.
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I don’t know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He’s done nothing.
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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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I don’t bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard … I sell.
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Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.
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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
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I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don’t they just print our money with a return address on it?
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Please don’t stand up on my account.
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Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn’t know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He’s always had an agent for that.
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Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome – the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
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I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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Lots of travel, away from home.
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I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, “Don’t worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it’s obsolete.”
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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 just hope I don’t have to explain all the times I’ve used His name in vain when I get up there.
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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
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