"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" Quotes
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain follows the mischievous and imaginative adventures of a young boy named Tom Sawyer growing up along the Mississippi River.
classics | 244 pages | Published in 1976
Quotes
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
You can't pray a lie—I found that out.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.
The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Oh, come now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.
If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy’s life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
