For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
BOB HOPEI was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
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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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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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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, ‘What do I do next?’ Pat replied, ‘Wait till the pain dies down.’
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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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The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
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If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t come to Vietnam, I’d send for it.
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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn’t understand us at all.
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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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I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.
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The only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes.
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Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
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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 good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he’s really pissed off.
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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
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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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The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn’t got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.
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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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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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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.
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I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.
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When you get over 95, every day is your day.
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