YOU, A NOVICE JUST TAKING YOUR FIRST STEPS ON THE JOUNEY TO WISDOM: “Dragons with four legs and two wings are unrealistic, no terrestrial vertebrate has six limbs.”

ME, A LEARNED MASTER: “This is true, but also the back and shoulders have no place for the robust attachment points large flight muscles require.”

At a party, Lady Astor admonished Winston Churchill for becoming “disgustingly drunk.”

In reply, Churchill quipped, “I am also disgustingly racist. But tomorrow I shall be sober, and still racist, and drunk again at my earliest convenience. And, God willing, even more homicidally bigoted.”