Quotes from L. Frank Baum

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows, observed the shaggy man.

but you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive. Especially

it seems to me the Land of Oz is a little ahead of the United States in some of its laws. For here, if one can't talk clearly, and straight to the point, they send him to Rigmarole Town; while Uncle Sam lets him roam around wild and free, to torture innocent people.

My heart is quite the best part of me.

I'm a lawyer, said the corkscrew, proudly. I am accustomed to appear at the bar.

I am afraid I shall never have any brains, after all!

cut the beast's head clean

oh, tía Em! ¡Soy tan feliz de volver a estar en casa...!

gigantic spiders

Yes; but it is Nature's magic, which is more wonderful than any art known to man.

Thoughts should be restrained in the same way as your oil, and only applied when necessary, and for a good purpose. If used carefully, thoughts are good things to have.

He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was.

If you think of some dreadful thing, it's liable to happen, but if you don't think of it, and no one else thinks of it, it just can't happen.

Yet Dorothy felt a sort of joyous excitement in defying the storm

With my list'ning and my shouting I prevent this mount from spouting, And that makes me so important that I'm glad that I'm alive.

traveling through her country. This made her angrier

Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe. As

Tol-de-ri-de-oh!" at

Chapter XXIV. Home Again.

No, replied the soldier. for my gun isn't loaded. Not loaded? No; for fear of accidents. And I've forgotten where I hid the powder and shot to load it with. But if you'll wait a short time I'll try to hunt them up.

If we used money to buy things with, instead of love and kindness and the desire to please one another, then we should be no better than the rest of the world, declared the Tin Woodman. Fortunately money is not known in the Land of Oz at all. We have no rich, and no poor; for what one wishes the others all try to give him, in order to make him happy, and no one in all Oz cares to have more than he can use.

But anyway his heart is kind and gentle and that is better than being wise.

I am on-ly a ma-chine," said Tiktok. "I cannot be kind an-y more than I can be sor-ry or glad. I can on-ly do what I am wound up to do.

shoes were so cut and slashed that they were ready to fall from her feet.