Quotes from L. Frank Baum

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

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.

Where is the Emerald City? he inquired. And who is Oz? Why, don't you know? she returned, in surprise. No, indeed. I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all, he answered sadly.

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.

Good day, said the Scarecrow, in a rather husky voice.

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.

Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.' After

It is classical music, and is considered the best and most puzzling ever manufactured. You're supposed to like it, whether you do or not, and if you don't, the proper thing is to look as if you did. Understand?

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.

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

Thank you very much, said the Scarecrow, when he had been set down on the ground.

If you only had brains in your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them.

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.

I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me

24. Home Again Aunt Em had just come out of the house to water the cabbages when she looked up and saw Dorothy running toward her. My darling child! she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses. Where in the world did you come from? From the Land of Oz, said Dorothy gravely. And here is Toto, too. And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!

Toto did not like this addition to the party at first. He smelled around the stuffed man as if he suspected there might be a nest

during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart, and so I am resolved to ask Oz to give me one. If he does, I will go back to the Munchkin maiden and marry her.

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. That must be a matter of opinion, said the Tin Woodman. For my part, I will bear all the unhappiness without a murmur, if you will give me the heart.

That is because you have no brains, answered the girl. 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.

I wouldn't be surprised if Ruggedo melted Tik-Tok in one of his furnaces and made copper pennies of him. In that case, I would still keep going, remarked Tik-Tok, calmly. Pennies do, said Betsy regretfully.

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.

The Wicked Witch then made the axe slip and cut off my head, and at first I thought that was the end of me. But the tinsmith happened to come along, and he made me a new head out of tin.

She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.

There's no place like HOME.