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Bob Hope113 quotes“You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.”
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I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
Bob HopeBob Hope I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, ‘What do I do next?’ Pat replied, ‘Wait till the pain dies down.’
Bob HopeBob Hope I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
Bob HopeBob Hope For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
Bob HopeBob Hope 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.
Bob HopeBob Hope Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
Bob HopeBob Hope 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.
Bob HopeBob Hope I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
Bob HopeBob Hope I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.
Bob HopeBob Hope There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
Bob HopeBob Hope We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.
Bob HopeBob Hope I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.
Bob HopeBob Hope 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.
Bob HopeBob Hope When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Bob HopeBob Hope Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
Bob HopeBob Hope You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor’s age by the rings on her fingers.
Bob HopeBob Hope
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I’m a girl from South Carolina. I was raised in a middle class family and decided to major in broadcast journalism.
Ainsley EarhardtAinsley Earhardt The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren’t for them, the reactor would explode.
Ahmed ToufiqAhmed Toufiq Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country,
Ahmet DavutogluAhmet Davutoglu A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.
Ahmed ToufiqAhmed Toufiq The middle way is an invitation to leap beyond nirvana and samsara and to realize the unborn Buddha mind right in the middle of everywhere.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The Buddha’s insight into the middle way is not simply about a balance between extremes. This conventional understanding misses the deeper revelation of the middle way as being the very nature of unexcelled enlightenment.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier Real management is developing people through work.
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