Bob Hope 1903 -2003

[gone fission]

ON TURNING 70
'I still chase women, but only downhill.'
ON TURNING 80
'That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.'
ON TURNING 90
'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.'
ON TURNING 100
'I don't feel old. In fact, I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.'
ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING
'I ruined my hands in the ring. The referee kept stepping on them.'
ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR
'Welcome to the Academy Awards, or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover.'
ON GOLF
'Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees.'
ON PRESIDENTS
'I have performed for 12 presidents but entertained only six.'
ON WHY HE CHOSE SHOWBIZ FOR
HIS CAREER
'When I was born, the doctor said to my mother,
Congratulations, you have an eight pound ham.'
ON RECEIVING THE
CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL
'I feel very humble, but I think I have the strength of character to fight it.'
ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY
'Four of us slept in the one bed. When it got cold, mother threw on another brother.'
ON HIS SIX BROTHERS
'That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom.'
ON HIS EARLY FAILURES
'I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me.'
ON GOING TO HEAVEN
'I've done benefits for ALL religions.
I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.'

[Ferdi]

One great humanitarian who kept us laughing till his time was up. Thanks for the memories. Ferdi

[Lowellhturner]

A man whom deliberately spent MANY of his own Christmases with our troops all over the world for decades...and refused even 1 dime for doing so.

[prefers shiners]

I got his autograph on my birthday when he was in Baton Rouge for a benefit.....around 1986...

[shipahoy41]

They don't make them like him any more. He was an American Classic AND....a fan of the Cleveland Browns!

[DockShootinJack]

He was one heck of an entertainer.

[Lowellhturner]

A Cleveland Browns fan ? I`m willing to forgive him...