I led such a sheltered life I didn’t go out with girls until I was almost four.
BOB HOPEI’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.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
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Bing Crosby and I play a lot of golf together and I have a small course at my place where we often play for side stakes.
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Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I’ve never heard of a clean one.
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US President Gerald Ford’s golf was so bad we thought he was a ‘Hitman for the PGA!
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Free speech isn’t dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.
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The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
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When you get over 95, every day is your day.
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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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It’s not hard to find Gerry Ford on a golf course – you just follow the wounded.
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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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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.
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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I have too much money invested in sweaters.
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Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
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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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