Herb Caen
Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caenwas a San Francisco journalist whose daily column of local goings-on and insider gossip, social and political happenings, painful puns and offbeat anecdotes—"a continuous love letter to San Francisco"—appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle for almost sixty yearsand made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth3 April 1916
CountryUnited States of America
Herb Caen quotes about
golf clothes discovery
Baffling late-life discovery: Golfers wear those awful clothes on purpose.
stay-strong anger night
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
use paper matter
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.
world may world-famous
When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.
land cities two
Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after you wipe your forehead and it comes away black. Is there a dirtier or more fascinating city anywhere in the land? The answer to both parts of the question has to be positively negative.
opportunity cities ideas
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.
cities san-francisco
God! I loove this city!
baseball matter clock
The clock doesn?t matter in baseball.
lost loved-and-lost attorney
It is better to have loved and lost, but only if you have a good attorney.
humorous san-francisco used
San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was.
self tactics satire
Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.
memories elephants remember
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.
self satisfaction smugness
San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
crazy odds concrete-jungle
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.