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Martinis are like breasts, one isn't enough, and three is too many — Herb Caen

Logic is no answer to passion. — Herb Caen

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. — Herb Caen

I sometimes worry about my short attention span, but not for long ... — Herb Caen

Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. — Herb Caen

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

Frisco" - a violation of local custom that, as Herb Caen had impatiently explained for many years, was committed only by clueless rubes. — David Talbot

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

New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. — Herb Caen

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen

Caen's San Francisco may not be the city we remember, but it is the city we want to remember. — Willie Brown

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

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. — Herb Caen

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

A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds. — Herb Caen

San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness. — Herb Caen

HERB CAEN WAS born in Sacramento, California, a town that combined all the glamour of a farm fair with the dazzle of a state franchise board hearing. — David Talbot

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

All American cars are basically Chevrolets. — Herb Caen

The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you. — Herb Caen

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

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

Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor. — Herb Caen

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. — Herb Caen

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials. — Herb Caen

The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. — Herb Caen

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

San Francisco isn't what it used to be, and it never was. — Herb Caen

God! I loove this city! — Herb Caen

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime. — Antony Beevor

There are more of them than us. — Herb Caen

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

There are a thousand viewpoints in the viewtiful city. — Herb Caen