Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
BOB HOPEPerfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you’ll promise her anything.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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The home videos aren’t as good, but they are seeming to get better.
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It’s so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
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I’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I’ve been doing that all my life.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I’ve encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE – and a maid to press it for me.
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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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I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent’s handshake.
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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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I led such a sheltered life I didn’t go out with girls until I was almost four.
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I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
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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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It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn’t know they had a caddie division.
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Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.
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We have 51 golf courses in Palm Springs. He [President Ford] never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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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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When 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.
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One of our stock lines used to be “There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for Bing, and there’s nothing he wouldn’t do for me.” And that’s the way we go through life – doing nothing for each other!
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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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I like to come to Washington, D.C., at least once a year. Why should my tax money travel more than I do?
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Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
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