This Guy Was Loved By Everyone

From Carrie.

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Bob Hope...

God love him......
For those of you too young to remember Bob, ask your Grandparents!!!
And thanks for the memories...
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WHAT A WONDERFUL REMEMBRANCE.
I HOPE THIS WILL PUT A SMILE ON YOUR FACE AND IN YOUR HEART.

Tribute to a man who DID make a difference:

* * * Bob Hope * * *
May 29,1903 -July 27, 2003

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ON TURNING 70

'You still chase women, but only downhill.'

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ON TURNING 80

'That's the time of your life when even your birthday suit needs pressing.'

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ON TURNING 90

'You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.'

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ON TURNING 100

'I don't feel old. In fact I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap.'

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ON GIVING UP HIS EARLY CAREER, BOXING

'I ruined my hands in the ring ... the referee kept stepping on them.'

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ON NEVER WINNING AN OSCAR

'Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover.''

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ON GOLF

'Golf is my profession. Show business is just to pay the green fees.'

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ON PRESIDENTS

'I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.'

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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.''

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ON RECEIVING THE CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL

'I feel very humble, but I think I have the

strength of character to fight it.'

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ON HIS FAMILY'S EARLY POVERTY

'Four of us slept in the one bed.

When it got cold, mother threw on another brother'

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ON HIS SIX BROTHERS

'That's how I learned to dance. Waiting for the bathroom.'

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ON HIS EARLY FAILURES

'I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't

for the stuff the audience threw at me.'

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ON GOING TO HEAVEN

'I've done benefits for ALL religions.

I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.'

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God BLESS AMERICA
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Give me a sense of humor Lord,

Give me the grace to see a joke,

to get some humor out of life, and pass it on to other folks.