Quotes by Herb Caen

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.

Concrete Jungle

Crazy

Odds

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

Ideas

Opportunity

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

Cities

Dream

Vision

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.

Dark

Flower

Girl

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.

Matter

Paper

Use

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

Cutting

Men

Wisdom

All American cars are basically Chevrolets.

American Cars

Car

Chevrolet

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

Broads

Given

Uncomplicated

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

Clothes

Discovery

Golf

Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.

Cutting

Play

Style

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American Cars

Anger

Answers

Attention

Attorney

Baseball

Broads

Building

Cake

Car

Chevrolet

Christian

Cities

Clock

Clothes

Concrete Jungle

Crazy

Cute

Cutting

Dark

Discovery

Doe

Dollar Bills

Dollars

Dream

Earth

Elephants

Enough

Fall

Flower

Football

Forever

Games

Girl

Given

Gloomy

Goes On

Golf

Heaven

Humility

Humorous

Ideas

Immortality

Interesting

Land

Life

Logic

Long

Lost

Loved And Lost

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Quotes by Herb Caen

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.

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.

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

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.

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

All American cars are basically Chevrolets.

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

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

Best trumpet: Mike Vax, an alumnus of the Kenton Band, who plays every style with a bright cutting edge, throwing in bop riffs here and there.

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