The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Quotes

“But old fools is the biggest fools there is.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:age

“to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:desire

“And when the middle of the afternoon came, from being a poor poverty-stricken boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:money

“Monday morning found Tom Sawyer miserable. Monday morning always found him so—because it began another week's slow suffering in school. He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity...”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:boredom

“Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:pride

“The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:food

“They did not know that the quicker a fresh-water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is; and they reflected little upon what a sauce open-air sleeping, open-air exercise, bathing, and a large ingredient of hunger make, too.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

topic:food