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?
BOB HOPEThe service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I’ve encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE – and a maid to press it for me.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
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Television. That’s where movies go when they die.
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It’s so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
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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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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I’ve been doing that all my life.
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Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
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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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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
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