You’ve got to be rich to have a swing like that
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things—not the great occasions—that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Happiness, Christmas
I just hope I don’t have to explain all the times I’ve used His name in vain when I get up there
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
I’d give up golf if I didn’t have so many sweaters
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
I’ll shoot my age if I have to live to be 105
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Aging, Age, Old Age
Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren’t penalized for being on grass.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
I don’t generally feel anything until noon, then it’s time for my nap.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Age, Aging
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Love, Kindness, Charity
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
—Bob Hope
Topics: Christmas
Golf’s a hard game to figure. One day you’ll go out and slice it, shank it, hit all the traps, and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Children
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Age, Aging
I do benefits for all religions—I’d hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Religion
I’ve been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Laughter
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Money
Isn’t it fun to go out on the course and lie in the sun?
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf, One liners
The program is nearly over! I can feel the audience is still with me but if I run faster I can shake them off
—Bob Hope
Topics: Audiences
We have fifty-one golf courses in Palm Springs. He(Gerald Ford) never decides which course he will play until after the first tee shot…At least he can’t cheat on his score- because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
I love to go to Washington—if only to be near my money.
—Bob Hope
People who throw kisses are mighty hopelessly lazy.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Kiss
I was lucky I wasn’t a better boxer, or that’s what I’d be now – a punchy ex-pug.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Difficulties, Adversity
If I’m on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast. If God wants to play through, let him
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.
—Bob Hope
Topics: Golf
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