You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
BOB HOPEAmerica is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan – Go for the Gold.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They’re still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.
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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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Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.
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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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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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It’s not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course – you just follow the wounded.
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
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It was a typically British birth… I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward… I came out in sympathy.
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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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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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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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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
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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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