Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. – Carl Sandburg
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles. – Hedy Lamarr
Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due. – Richard Blackmore, The Jockey Club and its Founders, 1891
