A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
Herb Caen Journalist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United States
- Born: Apr 3, 1916
- Died: Feb 1997
Herbert Eugene "Herb" Caen was 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 years, and made him a household name throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
The secret of Caen's success [was] his outstanding ability to take a wisp of fog, a chance phrase overheard in an elevator, a happy child on a cable car, a deb in a tizzy over a social reversal, a family in distress and give each circumstance the magic touch that makes a reader an understanding eyewitness of the day's happenings.
A special Pulitzer Prize called him the "voice and conscience" of San Francisco."