I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
BOB HOPEPlease don’t stand up on my account.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
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I’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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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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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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A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.
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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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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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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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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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It’s a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you’ll be able to watch it all on TV.
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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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 know what a fan letter is – it’s just an inky raspberry.
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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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I don’t bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard … I sell.
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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 don’t know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He’s done nothing.
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I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it’s silly to let the game get to you.
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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
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If you think golf is relaxing, you’re not playing it right.
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Failure is the only thing I’ve ever been a success at.
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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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Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?
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