Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
BOB HOPEFree speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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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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I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
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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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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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The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
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To give you an idea of how fast we travelled – we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
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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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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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We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.
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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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