L. Frank Baum Quotes

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

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 there, I never really lost it to begin with!

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.

Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz

You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

How very wet this water is.

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.