Bob Hope

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Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Years
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Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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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
- Bob Hope
Collection: One Line
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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
Collection: Funny
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He hits the ball 130 yards and his jewelry goes 150.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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Arnold Palmer is the biggest crowd pleaser since the invention of the portable sanitary facility.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Beach
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On one hole, I hit an alligator so hard, he's now my golf bag.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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Where else but in America could the women's liberation movement take off their bras, then go on TV to complain about their lack of support?
- Bob Hope
Collection: America
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I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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Your ignorance cramps my conversation
- Bob Hope
Collection: Ignorance
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I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Men
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I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Running
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I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Birthday
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My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Gun
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Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? That's what Congress is for.
- Bob Hope
Collection: People
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Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Laughter
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I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Blood
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America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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Following his doctor's orders, Nikita (Khrushchev) has cut his drinking in half. He's leaving out the water.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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I'm from Los Angeles... I don't trust any air I can't see.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Air
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Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Country
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I can't give up Golf, I've got too many sweaters.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Giving Up
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I get upset over a bad shot just like anyone else. But it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Beautiful
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Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands
- Bob Hope
Collection: Moving
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It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Watches
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Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's known at my house, Passover.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Awards
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Don't tempt me, I can resist anything but temptation.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Temptation
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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.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Bombers
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Everyone's nervous these days. Ronald McDonald has hired six bodyguards, and that's just to protect his buns.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Mcdonalds
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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
Collection: Witty
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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.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Laughter
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Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Mother
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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
Collection: Funny
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I don't know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.
- Bob Hope
Collection: People
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Eighty is when you order a steak and the headwaiter puts it through the blender. Or when you wake up as many times during the night as Burt Reynolds, but not for the same reason.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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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.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny
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A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Mothers Day
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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
Collection: Golf
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Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend's house during a power failure.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Girlfriend
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I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Golf
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The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Mouths
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It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Next Day
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It was a typically British birth... I was three at the time. They had a strike in the maternity ward... I came out in sympathy.
- Bob Hope
Collection: Funny