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.
BOB HOPEI’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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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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Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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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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Lots of travel, away from home.
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I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.
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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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If my golf game was a prize fight, they’d stop it.
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That’s life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
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If I had that kind of money, I wouldn’t come to Vietnam, I’d send for it.
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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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The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he’s really pissed off.
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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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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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Chiropractic is a wonderful means of natural healing!
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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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The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.
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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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I don’t know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.
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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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The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
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I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
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I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it’s silly to let the game get to you.
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Cypress Point is such a beautiful place, but it’s also very exclusive. They had a very successful membership drive last month. They drove out forty members.
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