Bob Hope Quotes

Sir Bob Hope KBE, KC*SG, KSS was a British-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 54 feature films with Hope as star, including a series of seven "Road" musical comedy movies with Bing Crosby as Hope's top-billed partner. ...more

Birth: May 29, 1903 - Death: July 27, 2003

- Bob Hope

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

- Bob Hope

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

Topic(s): Long , Age , Growing

- Bob Hope

Middle age is when you still believe you’ll feel better in the morning.

Topic(s): Believe , Feels , Stills

- Bob Hope

If he slices the budget like he slices a golf ball, the nation has nothing to worry about.

Topic(s): Ifs , Nations , Worry

- Bob Hope

Timing is the essence of life, and definitely of comedy.

Topic(s): Comedy , Essence , Timing

- Bob Hope

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

Topic(s): Television , Boxes , Entertainment

- Bob Hope

Pebble Beach is Alcatraz with grass.

Topic(s): Golf , Beach , Grass

- Bob Hope

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.

Topic(s): People , Years , Has Beens

- Bob Hope

Seventy years of ad-lib material, and I am speechless.

Topic(s): Years , Materials , Ads

- Bob Hope

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn’t for the stuff the audience threw at me.

Topic(s): Ifs , Men , Stuff

- Bob Hope

You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you’re turning the pages.

Topic(s): Book , Hard , House

- Bob Hope

My old friend Jack Benny has only had one ball all his golfing life. And now he’s lost it. The string came off!

Topic(s): Lost , Balls , Golf

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