We’re on our way to the Persian Gulf. Wait! It’s a mistake! I thought they said Persian Golf.
BOB HOPEI’ve never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn’t know how really great he is.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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You can calculate Zsa Zsa Gabor’s age by the rings on her fingers.
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Out here in the Pacific, they have typhoons and hurricanes that blow over 200 miles an hour. We have tornadoes and hurricanes back home, but I don’t worry about them. The mortgage on my house is so heavy that nothing could budge it.
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The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.
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A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
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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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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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President Eisenhower has given up golf for painting. It takes fewer strokes.
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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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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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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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You know you’ve reached middle age when your weightlifting consists merely of standing up.
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I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
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Please don’t stand up on my account.
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She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn’t help wondering from what direction.
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