To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

History does not record in its annals any lasting domination exercised by one people over another, of different race, of diverse usages and customs, of opposite and divergent ideals. One of the two had to yield and succumb.

Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

To retain respect for sausages and laws one must not watch them in the making.

Laws are like sausages it is better not to see them being made.