The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
BOB HOPEI once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, ‘What do I do next?’ Pat replied, ‘Wait till the pain dies down.’
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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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. “
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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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It’s a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you’ll be able to watch it all on TV.
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One of our stock lines used to be “There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Bing, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me.” And that’s the way we go through life – doing nothing for each other!
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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.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
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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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The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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If my golf game was a prize fight, they’d stop it.
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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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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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