"Boney can't meet that many people on their way to Chile," Harper observed sagely.

Mary, for example, sagely observes at one point, "Every cave is a tunnel."

But "whether any of these tales were true or not hardly mattered," he sagely observes.

"The day always comes when such gentry lose their heads and go too far," he observed sagely.

As for the fraud charges themselves, the analysts sagely observed: "Somewhere between the district attorney's accusations and the company's denials lies the truth."

"If you can't measure output," Chris would observe sagely, "measure input."

Kaplan sagely observes that "the accident of his presidency doesn't mean Bush is illegitimate."

Then he observed sagely: "You must feel jolly well tired by this time."

One guest sagely observes, "Everybody's a somebody and, at the same time, everybody's a nobody."

Buffy's mom blithely takes an oh-kids-nowadays approach, observing sagely that "everything is life and death when you're a 16-year-old."