Top 100 L. Frank Baum Quotes
#1. He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.
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#2. The Witch was too much afraid of the dark to dare go in Dorothy's room at night to take the shoes, and her dread of water was greater than her fear of the dark.
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#3. Everyone loved her, but her greatest sorrow was that she could find no one to love in return, since all the men were much too stupid and ugly to mate with one so beautiful and wise.
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#4. All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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 little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.
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#7. Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
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#8. Flathead on the mountain. Taking them one at a time, she had the can of brains that belonged to each one opened and the contents spread on the flat head, after which, by means of her arts of sorcery,
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#9. For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.
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#10. He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy.
"Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion.
"Neither. He's a
a
a meat dog," said the girl.
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#12. In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.
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#13. Those who remember are usually the unhappy ones. Only those who are able to forget, find the most joy in life.
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#14. But to become civilized means to dress as elaborately and prettily as possible, and to make a show of your clothes so your neighbors will envy you, and for that reason both civilized foxes and civilized humans spend most of their time dressing themselves.
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#15. Is this a trial of thoughts, or of kittens?' demanded the Woggle-Bug.
'It's a trial of one kitten,' replied the Scarecrow; 'but your manner is a trial to us all.
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#16. Nonsense!" said the Emperor - but in a kindly, sympathetic tone. "Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. For before your head has time to spoil you can have it canned, and in that way it may be preserved indefinitely.
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#17. To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. (The Flying Girl, 1911)
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#18. You began it," declared Dorothy. "Well, you ended it, so we won't argue the matter. May we come out again? Or are you still cruel and slappy?
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#19. Oh - You're a very bad man!
Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.
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#20. But could you not be mended?" asked the girl. "Oh, yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know," replied the Princess.
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#21. But I do not wish to fight," declared Ozma, firmly. "No one has the right to destroy any living creatures, however evil they may be, or to hurt them or make them unhappy.
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#22. But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive." "Especially
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#23. 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 a heart if he had one.'
I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman, 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
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#24. Scoundrel? We do not call Senhor Valcour that. He is faithful to the Emperor, who employs him. Shall we, who are unfaithful, blame him for his fidelity?
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#25. And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.
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#26. Reached by a trap door in the middle of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole. When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad
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#27. I'm glad I don't know everything, Dorothy, and that there still are things in both nature and in wit for me to marvel at.
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#28. Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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#29. Suppose we try kindness," suggested the Tin Woodman. "I've heard that anyone can be conquered with kindness, no matter how ugly they may be." At
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#30. He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.
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#31. Why didn't the Eskimo keep it?" she asked, looking at the Magnet with interest. "He got tired of being loved and longed for some one to hate him. So he gave me the Magnet and the very next day a grizzly bear ate him." "Wasn't he sorry then?" she inquired. "He didn't say," replied the shaggy man,
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#32. The Lion. "They of seem so helpless and frail. But there are none in the forest so bright as these." They now came upon more and more of the big
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#33. And then I should get no brains," said the Scarecrow. "And I should get no courage," said the Cowardly Lion. "And I should get no heart," said the Tin Woodman. "And I should never get back to Kansas," said Dorothy.
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#34. 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
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#35. The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good.
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#36. To console the girl for the loss of her feathered friend.
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#37. The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
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#38. 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.
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#39. It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil ...
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#40. 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.
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#41. Twilight fell, bye and bye, and then the dark shadows of night.
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#42. To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
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#43. If I run I may fall down and break myself.
But could you not be mended? asked the girl.
Oh yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know.
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#44. If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.
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#45. A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others
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#46. Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world."
Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow.
No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.
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#48. You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
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#49. My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.
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#50. The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.
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#51. If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.
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#52. Is it a toy?" asked Button-Bright softly.
"No, dear," answered Dorothy; "it's better than that. It's the fairy dwelling of a fairy prince.
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#53. Do not despair whatever happens for behind the clouds is always the rainbow.
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#54. It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.
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#55. 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.
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#56. And the Lion," he said to the Woodman, "and the bees cannot sting them." This the Woodman did, and as Dorothy lay close beside the Lion
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#57. Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
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#58. The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning
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#59. So the Woodman raised his axe, and as the Wildcat ran by he gave it a quick blow that cut the beast's head clean off from its body, and it rolled over at his feet in two pieces.
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#60. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children
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#61. Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.
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#62. No one has the right to destroy any living creatures, however evil they may be, or to hurt them or make them unhappy. I will not fight, even to save my kingdom.
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#63. fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet
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#64. Well," said Dorothy, "I was born on a farm in Kansas, and I guess that's being just as 'spectable and haughty as living in a cave with a tail tied to a rock. If it isn't I'll have to stand it, that's all.
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#65. The North Country is purple, and it's the Country of the Gillikins. The East Country is blue, and that's the Country of the Munchkins. Down at the South is the red Country of the Quadlings, and here, in the West, the yellow Country of the Winkies.
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#66. For a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.
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#67. But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
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#68. Scarecrow: I haven't got a brain ... only straw.
Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
Scarecrow: I don't know ... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking ... don't they?
Dorothy: Yes, I guess you're right.
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#69. Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.
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#70. I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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#71. But nobody can stay alive without getting into danger sometimes, and danger doesn't mean getting hurt, Cap'n; it only means we might get hurt. So I guess we'll have to take the risk.
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#72. The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
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#73. Not willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds.
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#74. Because the Nome King intends to do evil is no excuse for my doing the same,
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#77. 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.
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#78. Never give up ... No one knows what's going to happen next.
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#79. But love is a stubborn thing to conquer. When you think you've killed it, it's liable to bob up again as strong as ever.
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#80. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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#82. Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.
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#83. Why, when it comes to Law, I have nothing to say" answered that personage. "for laws were never meant to be understood, and it is foolish to make the attempt.
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#84. Do you think Oz could give me courage? asked the Cowardly Lion.
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#85. This Guph was really a clever rascal, and it seems a pity he was so bad, for in a good cause he might have accomplished much.
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#86. Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.
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#87. 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.
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#88. Mr. Smith was an art-ist, as well as an in-vent-or, and he paint-ed a pic-ture of a riv-er which was so nat-ur-al that, as he was reach-ing a-cross it to paint some flow-ers on the op-po-site bank, he fell in-to the wa-ter and was drowned.
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#89. You are both rich my friends ... And your riches are the only riches worth having, the riches of content.
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#90. All your troubles are due to those 'ifs', declared the Wizard.
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#91. It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.
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#92. If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
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#93. People often do a good deed without hope of reward, but for an evil deed they always demand payment.
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#94. No one knows that, except the person who's writing this story," said Shaggy. "But we won't find anything - not even supper - unless we travel on. Here's a path. Let's take it and see where it leads to.
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#96. It is useless to fight people with shooting heads; no one can withstand them.
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#97. I am content in knowing I am as brave as any best that ever lived, if not braver.
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#98. We are all vegetable, in this country. Are you not vegetable, also?" "No," answered the Wizard. "People on top of the earth are all meat. Will
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#99. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum
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#100. 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 morn-ing.'
'That's nice,' said the little girl; 'only I never wish to get up in the morning.
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