Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
BOB HOPEEverybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.
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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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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.
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I just hope I don’t have to explain all the times I’ve used His name in vain when I get up there.
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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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We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.
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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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Please don’t stand up on my account.
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I’ve always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It’s an island and the audience can’t run very far.
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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 help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
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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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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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I never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.
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