Herb Caen Quotes

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• A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
• The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
• Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
• San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
• A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at…
• I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks…
• A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
• New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration.
• Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
• Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.
• A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it…
• Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
• The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
• We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season.
• We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.
• I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
• A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
• The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here
• The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.
• Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.

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