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.
BOB HOPEDid 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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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It’s a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he’s dead.
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I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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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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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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Audiences are my best friends. You never tire of talking with your best friends.
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When you get over 95, every day is your day.
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Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells ‘Fore!’ the guy he’s hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It’s in the lease.
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I led such a sheltered life I didn’t go out with girls until I was almost four.
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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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It’s amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn’t sell theirs threw them away.
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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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US President Gerald Ford’s golf was so bad we thought he was a ‘Hitman for the PGA!
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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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As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window.
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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’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.
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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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Lots of travel, away from home.
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The home videos aren’t as good, but they are seeming to get better.
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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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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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There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
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You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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