Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn’t hear them.
BOB HOPENow that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here – just for me.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra.
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She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.
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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
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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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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.
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The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.
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A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
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My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They’re still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.
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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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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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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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I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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