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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More Bob Hope Quotes
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I don’t do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.
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And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them.
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People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
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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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There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
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Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
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The home videos aren’t as good, but they are seeming to get better.
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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 so cold here in Washington, D.C., that politicians have their hands in their own pockets.
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The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don’t know which end to talk to.
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It’s a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he’s dead.
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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
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I have too much money invested in sweaters.
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When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
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One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we’ll have her forever.
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Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend’s house during a power failure.
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Did you see where President Reagan finally got a hearing aid? People have been telling him to get one for years, but he couldn’t hear them.
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Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
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YOU CAN ONLY DO ONE THING AT A TIME SO CONCENTRATE ON IT.
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Chiropractic is a wonderful means of natural healing!
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The workers love Khrushchev very much. He hasn’t got an enemy in the entire country. Quite a few under it.
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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 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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For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green
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He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England
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You know what a fan letter is – it’s just an inky raspberry.
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