The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.

No small art is it to sleep: it is necessary for that purpose to keep awake all day.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

The last vestiges of the old Republic have been swept away.

There is always something new out of Africa.

According to my best recollection, I don't remember.

The superfluous is very necessary.

Littering is dumb.