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.

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  Wisdom, Cutting, Men

  "Quotable Quotes". Reader's Digest, p.144, March 31, 1997.

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• I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long.

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  Long, Worry, Attention

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• San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.

  Herb Caen

  Humorous, San Francisco, Used

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

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  Dream, Cities, Vision

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• 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 around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

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  San Francisco, Heaven, Doe

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• Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.

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  Three, Enough, Martini

  "Breasts, Martinis and Hitchens" by Alexander Cockburn, www.counterpunch.org. May 6, 2003.

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• Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?

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  Nice, San Francisco, People

  Herb Caen (1958). “New Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area”

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• I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

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  Life, Cute, Wise

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• The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here

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  Heaven, Earth, May

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• The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

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  Christian, Time, Pain

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• 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 the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city.

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  Girl, Flower, Dark

  Herb Caen (1967). “San Francisco, City on Golden Hills”

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• There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city.

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  Cities, San Francisco, Viewpoints

  Herb Caen (1991). “Best of Herb Caen: 1960-1975”, Chronicle Books (CA)

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• It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.

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  Lost, Loved And Lost, Attorney

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• One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

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  San Francisco, Heaven, One Day

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• Logic is no answer to passion.

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  Passion, Answers, Logic

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• We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy.

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  Order, Interesting, Redundancy

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• A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

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  Opportunity, Cities, Ideas

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• Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

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  Stay Strong, Anger, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

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  Memories, Elephants, Remember

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• The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

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  Forever, Goes On, Immortality

  Herb Caen, Irene Mecchi (1992). “Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991”, Chronicle Books Llc

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• Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.

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  Golf, Discovery, Clothes

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• Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

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  Self, Tactics, Satire

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• The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.

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  Baseball, Moving, Games

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• 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 doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

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  Use, Paper, Matter

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• When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

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  World, May, World Famous

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