As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window.
BOB HOPEI’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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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A photographer kept shooting me every time I swung. I was very flattered until I found out he was from Field and Stream.
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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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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
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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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I don’t know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He’s done nothing.
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You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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If you think golf is relaxing, you’re not playing it right.
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I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
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One of our stock lines used to be “There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Bing, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me.” And that’s the way we go through life – doing nothing for each other!
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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.
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Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn’t get elected, he’d go back to acting.
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The Governor has no presidential aspirations. In fact he just made a tour of 43 states just to tell them he’s not running for anything.
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The high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear’s huge jaws. I wouldn’t even try that with my agent.
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