Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Hope

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.

Bob Hope

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

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

She spoke perfect English, which led to considerable trouble. She couldn't understand us at all.

Bob Hope

Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

Bob Hope

Sure, we did need the oil in America. How else could Dolly Parton get into some of her dresses?

Bob Hope

My folks were English . . . we were too poor to be British.

Bob Hope

The place was so British, I wouldn't have been surprised if the mice wore monocles.

Bob Hope

The help (in Japan) is very polite. They bow so much, you don't know which end to talk to.

Bob Hope

Tokyo cab drivers are all ex-kamikaze pilots.

Bob Hope

Our first stop was red square, the heart of Moscow - if Moscow has one.

Bob Hope

The service at the Imperial (Tokyo) is the finest I've encountered anywhere. There was a button next to my bed marked ROOM SERVICE - and a maid to press it for me.

Bob Hope

There are many talented English personalities, but unfortunately they were all in Hollywood.

Bob Hope

English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.

Bob Hope

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

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

Bob Hope

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

Bob Hope

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.

Bob Hope

We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

Bob Hope

England occupies a warm spot in my affections. It was the scene of my greatest performance. I was born there.

Bob Hope

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers...

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Joanna Lumley

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

Alex Trebek

Viewers know that I have a weird sense of humor, but that I'm serious about the game,

Jo Brand

If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension.

James Taylor

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

James P. Hogan

Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.

John Denver

Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.

John Candy

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.

Robert Frost

All the fun's in how you say a thing

Napoleon Hill

Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

Lord Byron

There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

Malcolm Forbes

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.