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 HOPEAll British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It’s in the lease.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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Television. That’s where movies go when they die.
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
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Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it’s also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.
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Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
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The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
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Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I’ve never heard of a clean one.
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I don’t do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.
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US President Gerald Ford’s golf was so bad we thought he was a ‘Hitman for the PGA!
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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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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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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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Don’t tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.
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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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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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