Herb Caen Quotes & Sayings
23 most famous Herb Caen quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American journalist who passed away on 1 February, 1997.
“A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.”
“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.”
“I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.”
“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.”
“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”
“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”
“Logic is no answer to passion.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”
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