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.
BOB HOPEI never kick my ball in the rough or improve my lie in a sand trap. For that I have a caddie.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It’s in the lease.
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I see the Beatles have arrived from England. They were 40 pounds overweight – and that was just their hair.
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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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Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn’t hear them.
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It’s very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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When you get over 95, every day is your day.
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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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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we’ll have her forever.
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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 have too much money invested in sweaters.
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Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?
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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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