Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
BOB HOPEEverybody is afraid they won’t have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it with him. He had his appendix taken out and a piggy bank put in.
More Bob Hope Quotes
-
-
I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
BOB HOPE -
She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.
BOB HOPE -
Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
BOB HOPE -
President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
BOB HOPE -
To give you an idea of how fast we travelled – we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.
BOB HOPE -
It’s so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
BOB HOPE -
Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
BOB HOPE -
When you get over 95, every day is your day.
BOB HOPE -
I’ve always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It’s an island and the audience can’t run very far.
BOB HOPE -
Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
BOB HOPE -
We’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
BOB HOPE -
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.
BOB HOPE -
Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
BOB HOPE -
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.
BOB HOPE -
If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t come to Vietnam, I’d send for it.
BOB HOPE