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.
BOB HOPEHaving so many gold courses so close together was ideal for me. With my slice I could enjoy three or four golf courses at the same time.
More Bob Hope Quotes
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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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I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
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If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
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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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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he’s now my golf bag.
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Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
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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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I’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.
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
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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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I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.
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At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.
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Celebrities have a way of touching our lives. Perhaps we are influenced by their screen image, or perhaps by their acquired status.
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