We didn’t know that in America after the war, you wouldn’t be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
BOB HOPEIt’s not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course – you just follow the wounded.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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I do benefits for all religions – I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
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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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The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
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If you think golf is relaxing, you’re not playing it right.
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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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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, ‘What do I do next?’ Pat replied, ‘Wait till the pain dies down.’
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The good news is that Jesus is coming back. The bad news is that he’s really pissed off.
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.
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That’s life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.
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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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Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend’s house during a power failure.
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I don’t know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He’s done nothing.
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Lots of travel, away from home.
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When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor’s Orphanage – he shot both his parents and moved in.
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Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
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I love to go to Washington – if only to be near my money.
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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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Please don’t stand up on my account.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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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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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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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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Television is the box they buried entertainment in.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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