L. Frank Baum

Quotes

• “Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusk...”
• “It's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."The bird swam swiftly and grace...”
• “Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow."You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has br...”
• “All the same,' said the Scarecrow,'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with ...”
• “You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing t...”
• “For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he ...”
• “That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration i...”
• “I can tell the time, though, by speak-ing, and as I nev-er sleep I can wak-en you at an-y hour you wish to get up in the...”
• “All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true coura...”
• “Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to ...”
• “No matter how dreary and grey our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other coun...”
• “Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an of...”
• “This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of ev...”
• “Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the lit...”
• “Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own c...”
• “Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our chil...”
• “If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't th...”
• “Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is ...”
• “The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join th...”
• “In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians" ~ The Witch...”
• “And remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by o...”
• “You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answe...”
• “You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.”
• “The wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older and made me amazing”
• “People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.”
• “The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good." L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910”
• “People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”
• “All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow”
• “If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”
• “In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.”
• “A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.”
• “But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.”
• “Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart”
• “It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool”
• “True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...”
• “True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.”
• “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
• “Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.”
• “Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.”
• “Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”
• “Lions and tigers and Funkyoid, oh my!”
• “There's no place like home...”