The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Illustrations for the Silpo Supermarket inspired by the immortal book about evolving friendships, budding romance and thrilling adventure.
The drawings are accompanied by Mark Twain's timeless quotes.
Huckleberry was idle and lawless and vulgar and bad —
and all children admired him so.
Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him.
So he played with him every time he got a chance…
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and
play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood
Forest than President of the United States forever.
“Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday,
unless they hang him first!” — Aunt Polly
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full
value of joy you must have somebody to divide it with...
That is the way we are made: we don’t reason, where we feel; we just feel.
— Rebecca Thatcher!
Tom glanced at her face — it was white with terror.
- Did you tear — no, look me in the face, did you tear this book?!
A thought shot like lightning through Tom’s brain. He sprang to his feet and shouted:
- I done it!
A thought shot like lightning through Tom’s brain. He sprang to his feet and shouted:
- I done it!
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.
The most interesting information come from children,
for they tell all they know and then stop.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them
than to have them and not deserve them.
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.
The trouble is not in dying for a friend,
but in finding a friend worth dying for...
