The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
BOB HOPEThe high point of the act is when he (Uri Durov) puts his head inside the bear’s huge jaws. I wouldn’t even try that with my agent.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.
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Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you’ll promise her anything.
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I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
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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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It’s so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
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I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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I asked the colonel what type of aircraft it was, and he said, “Don’t worry about it, Bob. . . if you can see it, it’s obsolete.”
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A few years ago he had a big heart transplant in Chicago, a five-hour operation. It took the doctors four hours to get him on the operating table.
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I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
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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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I’ve been married fifty-five years and I’ve been home three weeks.
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I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die.
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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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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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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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