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. “
BOB HOPEWhen 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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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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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Congratulations to whoever is finally booking music we love. It’s going to get us out of the house after dark!
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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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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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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 don’t know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He’s done nothing.
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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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The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it’s silly to let the game get to you.
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Be happy you guys. Be proud! You know what you are: you’re God’s frozen people.
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Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
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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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