Top 100 Baum's Quotes
#1. He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.
L. Frank Baum
#2. What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English
SWELL and LOUSY.
Vicki Baum
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
Vicki Baum
#6. I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
L. Frank Baum
#7. It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.
L. Frank Baum
#8. All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow
L. Frank Baum
#9. Now, that is very interesting history," said Jack, well pleased; "and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation.
L. Frank Baum
#10. 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
#11. Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.
Eric Baum
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
L. Frank Baum
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man
L. Frank Baum
#22. 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
#23. A woman who is loved always has success.
Vicki Baum
#25. 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
#26. It is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us.
L. Frank Baum
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#31. Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.
L. Frank Baum
#32. In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.
L. Frank Baum
#33. Those who remember are usually the unhappy ones. Only those who are able to forget, find the most joy in life.
L. Frank Baum
#34. 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
#35. 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
#37. The mind is an evolved computer program.
Eric Baum
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Life is precious. It is fragile. We have to treasure it if we want to survive.
Yogan Baum
#41. 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
#43. In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.
L. Frank Baum
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#54. To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. (The Flying Girl, 1911)
L. Frank Baum
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.
Vicki Baum
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive." "Especially
L. Frank Baum
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government's or the private sector's, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.
Caroline Baum
#70. ...thanks for good deeds do not amount to much except to prove one's politeness.
L. Frank Baum
#71. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#72. To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
L. Frank Baum
#73. It's so kind of you to want to visit me in my loneliness. - The Wicked Witch of the West. Now I know I have a heart, because it's breaking. - The Tin Woodsman Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
L. Frank Baum
#75. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#76. As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.
L. Frank Baum
#77. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#78. Get lost, Dorothy." "It's the thing we don't expect, Billina, that usually happens," observed the girl, thoughtfully.
L. Frank Baum
#79. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#80. What shall we give her?" Trot shook her head in despair. "I've tried to think and I can't," she declared. "It's the same way with me," said Dorothy. "I know one thing that 'ud
L. Frank Baum
#81. I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!
Vicki Baum
#82. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#84. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#85. It's the finest country in all the world, even if it is a fairyland, and I'm happy every minute I live in it, said the Shaggy Man.
L. Frank Baum
#86. 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
#87. It is always wise to do one's duty, however unpleasant that duty may seem to be. -Ozma
L. Frank Baum
#88. Swung his arm and chopped the wolf's head from its body, so that it immediately died. As soon as he could raise his axe another wolf came up, and he also fell under the sharp edge of
L. Frank Baum
#89. There's lots o' things folks don't 'preciate," replied the sailor-man. "If somethin' would 'most stop your breath, you'd think breathin' easy was the finest thing in life.
L. Frank Baum
#91. Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like home.
L. Frank Baum
#92. Never give up ... No one knows what's going to happen next.
L. Frank Baum
#93. A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.
Vicki Baum
#94. You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.
Vicki Baum
#95. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#96. I never got that tingling feeling, that breathlessness that I feel with you.
S.L. Baum
#97. All the magic isn't in fairyland," he said gravely. "There's lots of magic in all Nature, and you may see it as well in the United States, where you and I once lived, as you can here.
L. Frank Baum
#98. For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king's decree of a scholar's essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature and endures through many generations.
L. Frank Baum
#99. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#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.
L. Frank Baum
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