Top 100 Quotes About Bob Hope
#1. The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.
Bob Hope
#3. The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.
Bob Hope
#4. I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
Bob Hope
#5. Titleist has offered me a big contract not to play its balls.
Bob Hope
#6. Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.
Bob Hope
#7. I'll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105.
Bob Hope
#8. I used to hope the things I did would work; now I hope they last.
Bob Goff
#9. A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
#10. You've got to be rich to have a swing like that.
Bob Hope
#11. Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.
Bob Riley
#12. As the colonel and I sat swapping stories in the plane, a jet aircraft buzzed past our window. 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."
Bob Hope
#13. I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.
Gerald R. Ford
#14. Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
#15. Go figure a crazy, mixed-up country where ballet outsells boxing. I wouldn't be surprised if their wrestling was on the level.
Bob Hope
#16. A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.
Bob Hope
#17. Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I'm going to kill the guy.
Bob Hope
#18. I believe the leader's ultimate job is to spread hope.
Bob Galvin
#19. people who throw kisses are helplessly lazy
Bob Hope
#20. The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.
Bob Hope
#21. I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned how to dance- waiting for the bathroom.
Bob Hope
#22. I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.
Bob Hope
#23. I've been married fifty-five years and I've been home three weeks.
Bob Hope
#24. Not that they were that anxious to see Ronnie as President; they were afraid if he didn't get elected, he'd go back to acting.
Bob Hope
#25. There's a very apt saying in show business: "If you don't go over budget in Paris, you're either very rich or very sick. "
Bob Hope
#26. Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.
Drake Bell
#27. When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Bob Hope
#28. Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.
Bob Colacello
#29. I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
Bob Brown
#30. A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.
Bob Hope
#31. You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry.
Bob Hope
#32. I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
Bob Hope
#33. I don't know what people have against government; they haven't done anything.
Bob Hope
#34. My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I was twenty one.
Bob Hope
#35. Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.
Bob Hope
#36. As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.
Bob Hope
#37. I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
Bob Hope
#38. Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies
Bob Hope
#39. I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.
Bob Hope
#40. The firm is really ahead of the times. It has a stock market ticker that prints its report on thin aspirins.
Bob Hope
#41. A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
Bob Hope
#42. Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
Bob Hope
#43. In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear button was at one stage at the disposal of a man who might have either pressed it by mistake or else pressed it deliberately in order to obtain room service.
Clive James
#44. 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 Hope
#45. I thought that I held the record of most appearances on the Bob Hope Show, but I think - It's Brooke Shields.
Tony Randall
#46. Though I hope to have a few more seasons still in senior football, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and masseur when my playing days are over. We married men have to look to the future, you know.
Bob Paisley
#47. Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
Bob Hope
#48. I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
Bob Hope
#49. All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease.
Bob Hope
#50. There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.
Bob Hope
#51. She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.
Bob Hope
#52. I made so many B pictures I began to get fan mail from hornets...and for me that was an improvement.
Bob Hope
#53. And I hope that you die
And your death'll come soon
I will follow your casket
In the pale afternoon
And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Til I'm sure that you're dead
Bob Dylan
#54. Ronald Reagan is not a typical politician because he doesn't know how to lie, cheat, and steal. He's always had an agent for that.
Bob Hope
#55. I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.
Bob Hope
#56. I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.
Bob Hope
#57. I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
Bob Hope
#58. 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.
Bob Hope
#59. Golf is my profession Show business is just to pay the green fees.
Bob Hope
#60. It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just right. Then, on my way home, I see couples on every street corner doing it better.
Bob Hope
#61. I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.
Bob Hope
#62. I tell jokes to pay my green fees.
Bob Hope
#63. Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.
Bob Goff
#64. We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.
Bob Hope
#65. The big difference in those days was that in England the Government subsidized TV, in America we work on TV so we can subsidize the Government.
Bob Hope
#66. I don't bother to look for parking space anymore. As soon as I get near Hollywood Boulevard ... I sell.
Bob Hope
#67. Bing Crosby and I weren't the types to go around kissing each other. We always had a light jab for each other. 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!
Bob Hope
#68. I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.
Bob Hope
#69. Golf's really fun in Japan because of the women caddies ... I saw one guy start out playing alone with his caddie. By the 9th hole they were engaged and when they finished on 18 they had a foursome.
Bob Hope
#70. The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
Bob Hope
#71. People who blow kisses are hoplessly lazy.
Bob Hope
#72. Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking.
Bob Hope
#73. Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28.00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself
the Bank of America.
Bob Hope
#74. Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.
John Boehner
#75. The Governor has no presidential aspirations. In fact he just made a tour of 43 states just to tell them he's not running for anything.
Bob Hope
#76. And on nearby islands, the Japanese army was eating raw fish. We felt sorry for them. We didn't know that in America after the war, you wouldn't be able to get into a sushi joint without a reservation. And we thought they lost.
Bob Hope
#77. You know how I came up with the name 'Road to the Super Bowl?' It's an homage to the old Bob Hope - Bing Crosby buddy movies - you know, like 'Road to Zanzibar' or 'Road to Morocco.' Can you tell? All I've done my whole life is go to movies.
Steve Sabol
#78. I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.
Jay Watson
#79. Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.
Bob Hope
#80. 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.
Bob Hope
#81. He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.
Robert Hilburn
#82. Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.
Bob Goff
#83. Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.
Bob Hope
#84. Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.
Bob Hope
#85. I think God's hope and plan for us is pretty simple to figure out. For those who resonate with formulas, here it is: add your whole life, your loves, your passions, and your interests together with what God said He wants us to be about, and that's your answer.
Bob Goff
#86. I left England when I was four because I found out I could never be King.
Bob Hope
#87. Somebody should tell Jerry Falwell that God is an Independent ... he's not rich enough to be a Republican.
Bob Hope
#88. Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.
Rich Little
#89. Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.
Bob Hope
#90. When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in.
Bob Hope
#91. People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.
Bob Hope
#92. I just finished reading 'Don't Drink...' in one day. This is a very important and very 'big' book. Bob has bared his soul's journey like no one I can think of, and it's a great story offering great hope at the same time. This book will resonate with intelligent, conscious readers everywhere.
Neville Williams
#93. Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
Bob Hope
#94. In 2008 all the stars aligned perfectly for Obama's 6-point victory over John McCain. He was an inexperienced, untested neophyte, and successfully convinced enough voters to paint their own version of what hope-and-change was all about on the blank canvas he provided.
Bob Beauprez
#95. It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division.
Bob Hope
#96. Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Eddie Cantor ... help us keep our balance.
Hattie McDaniel
#97. If I had that kind of money, I wouldn't come to Vietnam, I'd send for it.
Bob Hope
#98. I can't give up Golf, I've got too many sweaters.
Bob Hope
#99. I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"
Tony Bennett
#100. Take nine strokes off your score. Skip the last hole.
Bob Hope
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