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.”
BOB HOPECulture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
More Bob Hope Quotes
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America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan – Go for the Gold.
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I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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I like to play in the low 70’s. If it gets any hotter than that I’ll stay in the bar!
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I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don’t they just print our money with a return address on it?
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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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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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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
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The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
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The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I’ve been doing that all my life.
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A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
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Kissing is like drinking tea with a tea strainer, you can never get enough.
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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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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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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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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I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.
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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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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.
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I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
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I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.
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At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
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