Top 100 Frank 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
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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. 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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#10. He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
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#14. It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.
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#15. All magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The Scarecrow
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#16. Now, that is very interesting history," said Jack, well pleased; "and I understand it perfectly all but the explanation.
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#17. 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.
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#18. The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
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#19. 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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#20. 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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#22. 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.
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#23. Brains are the only things worth having in this world.
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#24. 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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#25. Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man
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#26. 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.
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#28. 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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#29. It is folly for us to try to appear otherwise than as nature has made us.
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#30. 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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#32. Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.
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#33. In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.
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#34. 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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#35. 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
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#36. 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.
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#38. 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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#39. 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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#41. In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.
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#42. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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
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#46. 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.
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#47. 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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#48. Floor and keep the fire fed with wood. Dorothy went to work meekly, with her mind made up to work as hard as she
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#50. To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him. (The Flying Girl, 1911)
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#51. 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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#52. You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.
The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer
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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive." "Especially
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#57. 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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#58. How can I help being a humbug ... when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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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#61. shoes were so cut and slashed that they were ready to fall from her feet.
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#62. I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me,
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#63. Traveling through her country. This made her angrier
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#64. 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,
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#65. She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil.
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#66. And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.
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#67. It is possible for any man, by good deeds, to enshrine himself as a Saint in the hearts of the people.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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#72. 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.
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#73. 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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#74. No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.
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#75. The throne belongs to whoever is able to take it.
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#76. 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?
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#77. A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.
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#78. He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.
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#79. Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz
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#80. 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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#81. And took no pains to hide his feelings. Indeed, he sometimes showed less respect for the old woman than he should have
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#82. H.M.," said the Woggle-Bug, pompously, "means Highly Magnified; and T.E. means Thoroughly Educated. I am, in reality, a very big bug, and doubtless the most intelligent being in all this broad domain."
"How well you disguise it," said the Wizard.
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#83. 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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#84. That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
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#85. 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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#86. To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
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#87. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
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#88. 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.
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#89. ...thanks for good deeds do not amount to much except to prove one's politeness.
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#90. The reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good.
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#91. To console the girl for the loss of her feathered friend.
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#92. An educated Woggle-Bug may be a new thing; but a Woggle-Bug education is as old as the hills, judging from the display you make of it.
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders
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#96. Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. "I am a humbug." "But
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#97. 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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#98. 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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