We’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
BOB HOPEI have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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If my golf game was a prize fight, they’d stop it.
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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.
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Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.
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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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When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I’m breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That’s what gives me the strength to break the club.
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It was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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Failure is the only thing I’ve ever been a success at.
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When you get over 95, every day is your day.
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That’s life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.
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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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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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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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Be happy you guys. Be proud! You know what you are: you’re God’s frozen people.
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