Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?
BOB HOPEI led such a sheltered life I didn’t go out with girls until I was almost four.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here – just for me.
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
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I don’t do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.
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We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.
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Television. That’s where movies go when they die.
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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 good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he’s really pissed off.
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Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
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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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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It’s going to get us out of the house after dark!
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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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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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In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you.
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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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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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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we’ll have her forever.
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Don’t tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.
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I just hope I don’t have to explain all the times I’ve used His name in vain when I get up there.
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We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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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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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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