There’s a very apt saying in show business: “If you don’t go over budget in Paris, you’re either very rich or very sick. “
BOB HOPEContrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes.
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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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Television. That’s where movies go when they die.
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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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Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
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The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
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As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window.
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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It’s not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course – you just follow the wounded.
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Bing Crosby and I weren’t the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other.
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I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.
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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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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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Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you’ll promise her anything.
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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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