Everybody 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.
BOB HOPEIt’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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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 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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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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We didn’t know that in America after the war, you wouldn’t be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
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Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you’ll promise her anything.
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Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend’s house during a power failure.
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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 only troulbe is that when I win, I always have to engage and attorney before I can draw the money.
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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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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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It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn’t know they had a caddie division.
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I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight – and that was just their hair.
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There’s a very apt saying in show business: “If you don’t go over budget in Paris, you’re either very rich or very sick. “
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Failure is the only thing I’ve ever been a success at.
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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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