Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
BOB HOPEThe help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
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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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I don’t know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
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There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
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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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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
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I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don’t they just print our money with a return address on it?
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It’s very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
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Having so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the same time.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
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US President Gerald Ford’s golf was so bad we thought he was a ‘Hitman for the PGA!
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My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.
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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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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
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America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan – Go for the Gold.
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I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, “Don’t worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it’s obsolete.”
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I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
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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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Golf is a funny game. It’s done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I’m the healthiest idiot in the world.
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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.
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