Mark Twain

Mark Twain playing billiard, 1908 "The billiard table is better than the doctor." "This is a most amusing game. When...

Robert Doisneau, Bathing in the Seine, Paris, July 1949 “What is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what...

Geomancy Almanac . “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain,...

Alfred Eisenstaedt, School, Ankara, Turkey, 1934 . "In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he...

Stanley Kubrick, Circus scene, for Look Magazine, 1948 Children balance on rail in South Dakota,...

Ernesto Michahelles, aka Thayaht, Art Deco illustration, 1922 . “Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss” Sigmund Freud...

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bankers Trust, Manhattan, N.Y. 1960 . “The authoritarian character worships the past. What has been, will eternally be....

Édouard Manet, Young Lady, 1866 "She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you...

James P. Blair, Ear-deep in watermelon, a boy eats a juicy slice at a festival in Florida, December 1963 Anonyme...

Palestinian women playing basketball in Araa village, 1965 . “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play...