Quotes from L. Frank Baum

Of course I cannot understand it," he said. "If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.

24. Home Again Aunt

You have some queer friends, Dorothy, she said. The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends, was the answer.

In Oz, where all the animals and birds can talk, many fishes are able to talk also, but usually they are more stupid than birds and animals because they think slowly and haven't much to talk about.

No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another.

To be called beautiful was a novelty in his experience.

Indeed, the crown alone betokened majesty; in all else the, Scarecrow King was but a simple scarecrow—flimsy, awkward, and unsubstantial.

THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ 1.

todavía miraba a su sobrina con expresión de extrañeza, preguntándose qué era lo que la hacía reír.

On the east edge of the Land of Oz, in the Munchkin Country, is a big, tall hill called Mount Munch. One one side, the bottom of this hill just touches the Deadly Sandy Desert that separates the Fairyland of Oz from all the rest of the world, but on the other side, the hill touches the beautiful, fertile Country of the Munchkins

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

Al principio habíase preguntado si se haría pedazos cuando la casa volviera a caer; mas a medida que transcurrían las horas sin que sucediera nada terrible, dejó de preocuparse y decidió esperar con calma para ver qué le depararía el futuro.

La experiencia es la única fuente de conocimientos y cuanto más permanezcas sobre la tierra, más experiencia tendrás

The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends.

La verdadera valentía está en hacer frente al peligro cuando se tiene miedo

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason...when we waste time, we waste happiness.

But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything? I

That wall, explained the Shaggy Man, is what is called an optical illusion. It is quite real while you have your eyes open, but if you are not looking at it the barrier doesn't exist at all. It's the same way with many other evils in life; they seem to exist, and yet it's all seeming and not true.

El león cobarde

the queerest people she had ever seen.

each of us rules himself, or at least tries to do so. It is not an easy thing to do, as you probably know.

and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.

To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.

Brains, remarked Cap'n Bill, is of all kinds and work different ways. But I've noticed that them as thinks that their brains is best is often mistook.