Top 100 Baum Quotes
#1. In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.
David Levering Lewis
#2. 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." (L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)
John Eldredge
#3. Do try to be more cheerful and take life as you find it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 135 chapter 18
L. Frank Baum
#4. For although I feel that I know a tremendous lot, I am not yet aware how much there is in the world to find out about. It will take me a little time to discover whether I am very wise or very foolish - Jack Pumpkinhead - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 20 chapter 2
L. Frank Baum
#5. Do not, I beg of you, dampen today's sun with the showers of tomorrow. - Emperor Nick Chopper (The Tin Woodsman) -The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 86 chapter 11
L. Frank Baum
#6. Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'
Michael Patrick Hearn
#7. 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
L. Frank Baum
#8. The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum's 'Oz' books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark.
Steve Erickson
#9. Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.
Gore Vidal
#10. My favourite books series as a young child was the Frank L. Baum 'Wizard of Oz' series. They were beautifully written, oversized fat books with wonderful type and illustrations.
Anita Shreve
#11. 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
L. Frank Baum
#12. He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.
L. Frank Baum
#13. What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English
SWELL and LOUSY.
Vicki Baum
#14. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#15. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#16. There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum
#17. I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
L. Frank Baum
#18. It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.
L. Frank Baum
#19. All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow
L. Frank Baum
#20. Now, that is very interesting history," said Jack, well pleased; "and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation.
L. Frank Baum
#21. How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.
L. Frank Baum
#22. Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.
Eric Baum
#23. The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
L. Frank Baum
#24. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#25. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#27. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
L. Frank Baum
#28. Some people say that we only use 10% of our brains. I say that most only live 10% of their full potential in life.
Nolan R. Baum
#29. Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
L. Frank Baum
#30. Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...
Vicki Baum
#31. 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,
L. Frank Baum
#32. Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man
L. Frank Baum
#33. If we didn't want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can't go far wrong.
L. Frank Baum
#34. A woman who is loved always has success.
Vicki Baum
#36. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#37. It is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us.
L. Frank Baum
#38. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#40. Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.
L. Frank Baum
#41. In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.
L. Frank Baum
#42. Those who remember are usually the unhappy ones. Only those who are able to forget, find the most joy in life.
L. Frank Baum
#43. You do not I will make an end of you, as I did of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow. Dorothy followed her through many of the beautiful rooms in her castle
L. Frank Baum
#44. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#46. The mind is an evolved computer program.
Eric Baum
#47. I'd say that people give up because they don't know the possibilities that are out there for them, nor do they realize their potential.
Nolan R. Baum
#48. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#49. Life is precious. It is fragile. We have to treasure it if we want to survive.
Yogan Baum
#50. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#52. In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.
L. Frank Baum
#53. Tip thought this strange Army bore no weapons whatever; but in this he was wrong. For each girl had stuck through the knot of her back hair two long, glittering knitting-needles.
L. Frank Baum
#54. This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.
L. Frank Baum
#55. You're more than that," said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone; "you're a humbug." "Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. "I am a humbug.
L. Frank Baum
#56. Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land
L. Frank Baum
#57. I'm glass, and transparent, too, which is more than can be said of some folks," answered the cat. "Also I have some lovely pink brains; you can see 'em work.
L. Frank Baum
#58. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#59. Floor and keep the fire fed with wood. Dorothy went to work meekly, with her mind made up to work as hard as she
L. Frank Baum
#61. To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. (The Flying Girl, 1911)
L. Frank Baum
#62. 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?
L. Frank Baum
#63. To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.
Vicki Baum
#64. Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.
Vicki Baum
#65. You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.
The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer
L. Frank Baum
#66. Oh - You're a very bad man!
Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.
L. Frank Baum
#67. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#68. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#69. The seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.
Vicki Baum
#70. But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive." "Especially
L. Frank Baum
#71. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#72. How can I help being a humbug ... when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?
L. Frank Baum
#73. I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!'
Bruce Baum
#74. Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.
Vicki Baum
#75. I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
Bruce Baum
#76. The only way to do a thing Is do it when you can, And do it cheerfully, and sing And work and think and plan. The only real unhappy one Is he who dares to shirk; The only really happy one Is he who cares to work.
L. Frank Baum
#77. 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?
L. Frank Baum
#78. shoes were so cut and slashed that they were ready to fall from her feet.
L. Frank Baum
#79. I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me,
L. Frank Baum
#80. Traveling through her country. This made her angrier
L. Frank Baum
#81. Here is your future ruler, King Evardo Fifteenth. He is fifteen years of age, has fifteen silver buckles on his jacket and is the fifteenth Evardo to rule the land of Ev. The people shouted their approval fifteen times,
L. Frank Baum
#82. She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil.
L. Frank Baum
#83. And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.
L. Frank Baum
#84. It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people.
L. Frank Baum
#86. 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
L. Frank Baum
#87. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#88. New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don't keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future doesn't exist.
Dan Baum
#89. Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
L. Frank Baum
#90. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#91. 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
L. Frank Baum
#92. No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.
L. Frank Baum
#93. The throne belongs to whoever is able to take it.
L. Frank Baum
#94. I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,
spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar.
Who are you, and why do you seek me?
L. Frank Baum
#95. A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.
L. Frank Baum
#96. He who does not move with the times is a dead man
Vicki Baum
#97. He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.
L. Frank Baum
#98. Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
#99. 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,
L. Frank Baum
#100. And took no pains to hide his feelings. Indeed, he sometimes showed less respect for the old woman than he should have
L. Frank Baum
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