Herb Caen Famous Quotes
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
There are more of them than us.
The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb Caen Quotations
"To your friends, you're like a trash bag they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out."
Adam R Gwizdala
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop
"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest."
Wilson Mizner
"The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body."
John Adams
People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
Anne Tyler
"Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
Seneca
When something that honest is said it usually needs a few minutes of silence to dissipate.
Pamela Ribon
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
Henry Louis Mencken
Men are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson