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.
BOB HOPEI’ve got to watch myself these days. It’s too exciting watching anyone else.
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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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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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
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If you think golf is relaxing, you’re not playing it right.
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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.
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Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
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It’s amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn’t sell theirs threw them away.
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I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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Everybody knows what California smog is – that’s fog with the vitamins removed.
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Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday … He would say, ‘Keep it sweet and short and don’t try to be funny.’
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When you get over 95, every day is your day.
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Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here – just for me.
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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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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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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