If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob HopeRead
I'll tell 'ya how to stay young: Hang around with older people.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Staying young at heart can be influenced by the company we keep.
This quote by Bob Hope suggests that engaging with older individuals can provide a perspective on life that helps maintain a youthful spirit. It implies that wisdom and experiences shared by older generations can inspire a younger mindset, reminding us of the joys and lessons of life as we grow older.
Themes
YouthAgingWisdomPerspectiveExperience
In practice
Example use cases
This quote is perfect for a speech on the value of intergenerational relationships.
More from Bob Hope
All quotes βThe best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.
Bob HopeRead
Eisenhower admitted that the budget can't be balanced and McCarthy said the communists are taking over. You don't know what to worry about these days - whether the country will be overthrown or overdrawn.
Bob HopeRead
I was there. I saw your sons and your husbands, your brothers and your sweethearts. I saw how they worked, played, fought, and lived. I saw some of them die. I saw more courage, more good humor in the face of discomfort, more love in an era of hate and more devotion to duty than could exist under tyranny.
Bob HopeRead
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Bob HopeRead
Golf is a funny game. It's done much for health, and at the same time has ruined people by robbing them of their peace of mind. Look at me, I'm the healthiest idiot in the world.
Bob HopeRead
Similar quotes
Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly
J. D. SalingerRead
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
William BlakeRead
One percent doubt is zero percent faith.
Oprah WinfreyRead
Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued
Miguel De CervantesRead
Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Anatole FranceRead
He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure.
Thomas A KempisRead