Quotes from L. Frank Baum

They seemed happy and contented, though, remarked the Wizard, and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.

You must walk. It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible.

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

woods. The road was still paved with yellow brick, but these were much covered by dried branches and dead leaves from the trees, and the walking was not at all good. There were few

But I was raised in the United States, and I won't allow any one-horse chicken of the Land of Ev to run over me and put on airs, as long as I can lift a claw in self-defense.

With Dorothy hard at work, the

I have heard, my dear friend, that a person can become over-educated; and although I have a high respect for brains, no matter how they may be arranged or classified, I begin to suspect that yours are slightly tangled. In any event, I must beg you to restrain your superior education while in our society.

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.

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.

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.

The Great and Terrible Humbug

Oz, the Great and Terrible.

But why fight at all, in that case? asked the girl. So I may die with a clear conscience, returned the Wizard, gravely. It's every man's duty to do the best he knows how; and I'm going to do it.

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.

How shall we cross the river?

Well, said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive. Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart is beating yet.

All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid

Well, said the Cowardly Lion, drawing a long breath of relief, I see we are going to live a little while longer, and I am glad of it, for it must be a very uncomfortable thing not to be alive.

to console the girl for the loss of her feathered friend.

Handsome is as handsome does

It seems strange, said he, as he watched the Tin Woodman work, that my left leg should be the most elegant and substantial part of me. 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. Spoken like a philosopher! cried the Woggle-Bug

he drew from his pocket a tiny instrument which he placed against his ear. Ozma, observing this action in her Magic Picture, at once caught up a similar instrument from a table beside her and held it to her own ear. The two instruments recorded the same delicate vibrations of sound and formed a wireless telephone, an invention of the Wizard. Those separated by any distance were thus enabled to converse together with perfect ease and without any wire connection.

Brains are the only things worth having in this world

and took no pains to hide his feelings. Indeed, he sometimes showed less respect for the old woman than he should have