Herb Caen Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Herb Caen:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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