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This past weekend marked 5TH Year anniversary of the passing of a GREAT AMERICAN ...
Bob Hope ... May 29, 1903 - July 27, 2003 (Hard to believe that he has been gone 5 years)
* ON TURNING 70 'You 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 and 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 ggot 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.'
