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Herb Caen
10 quotes
“Isn't it nice that people who prefer Los Angeles to San Francisco live there?”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Winokur, Jon. The Portable Curmudgeon, p. 174. Plume, 1992.
“The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dell, Diana. Memorable Quotations: Humorists, Wits, and Satirists of the Past, p. 54. iUniverse, 2000.
“If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: USA Today, February 16, 2001. "Words from the heart', page D4
“Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many.”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cockburn, Alexander. "Breasts, Martinis and Hitchens". Counterpunch.org, May 6, 2003.
“The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever, but what's wrong with that, really?”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Caen, Herb. Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991, page 159. Chronicle Books, 1992. ISBN
“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Byrne, Robert. The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said, page 372. Simon and Schuster, 2012.
“I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Byrne, Robert. The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said, page 599. Simon and Schuster, 2012.
“A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Editors of the Reader's Digest. Quotable Quotes, page 144. Penguin, 1997
“Parking is such street sorrow.”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Byrne, Robert. The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said, page 554. Simon and Schuster, 2012.
“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.”
Herb Caen (1916–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Caen, Herb. "A city is like San Francisco, not a faceless 'burb" S.F. Gate, 2010.