Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
BOB HOPEI come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.
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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I’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
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Don’t tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.
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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
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Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome – the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
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If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.
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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.
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I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
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Golf is a funny game. It’s done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I’m the healthiest idiot in the world.
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The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I’ve encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE – and a maid to press it for me.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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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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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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I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, ‘What do I do next?’ Pat replied, ‘Wait till the pain dies down.’
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