The only way to fight a thing like 50 is to stay au courant if it kills you. Herb Caen More Quotes by Herb Caen More Quotes From Herb Caen 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 girl flower dark We (San Francisco) have football weather during baseball season, and baseball weather during football season. Herb Caen baseball weather football 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 san-francisco one-day heaven The precise location of heaven on earth has never been established but it may very well be right here Herb Caen earth may heaven You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils Herb Caen rams dollar-bills dollars We are reorganizing in order to eliminate duplication and redundancy. Herb Caen redundancy order interesting All American cars are basically Chevrolets. Herb Caen american-cars chevrolet car Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials. Herb Caen Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other. Herb Caen san-francisco wells building New Yorkers are stuck in a gloomy mucilage of mutual commiseration. Herb Caen gloomy mutual stuck San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness. Herb Caen smugness satisfaction self The clock doesn?t matter in baseball. Herb Caen clock baseball matter God! I loove this city! Herb Caen san-francisco cities The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle. Herb Caen cake towers would-be The world of Manhattan is small and tightly knit, and the man on top retains a certain humility. He knows how far and fast he can fall by looking at the guy across the street. The view from the $250,000 apartment covers a lot of ground, most of it condemned. Herb Caen humility men fall 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. Herb Caen cities opportunity ideas When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't. Herb Caen world-famous may world I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. Herb Caen elephants remember memories Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor. Herb Caen uncomplicated broads given 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. Herb Caen style cutting play