I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
BOB HOPEWe 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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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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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You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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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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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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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
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I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.
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Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
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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.
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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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The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
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I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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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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