Quotes from L. Frank Baum

I wonder where our legs have been while we've been gone? mused Cap'n Bill

Seems to me you LIKE bein' lonesome, observed Cap'n Bill. I can't say I like it, exactly, replied the Duck, but since it seems to be my fate, I'm rather proud of it.

No one can love a person he's afraid of, asserted Dorothy.

Be contented with your fate, for discontent leads to unhappiness, and unhappiness, in any form, is the greatest evil that can befall you.

Dangers don't hurt us. Only things that happen ever hurt anyone, and a danger is a thing that might happen and might not happen, and sometimes don't amount to shucks.

I composed it myself! said the Fiddler Crab. But it's highly classical, I admit. All really great music is an acquired taste.

Folks gener'ly gets stuck-up 'cause they don't know theirselves like other folks knows 'em.

Children who eat between meals should be broken of the habit.

You people with hearts he said have something to guide you and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful. When Oz gives me a heart of course I needn't mind so much

Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow. "You don't need them. You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Don't try, my dear

Those who do the least, often shout the loudest and so get the most glory.

To be just like other persons is small credit to one, while to be unlike others is a mark of distinction.

And I am resolved never to speak again without taking time to think carefully on what I am going to say, for I realize that speech without thought is dangerous

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.

All persons are usually judged by the shapes in which they appear to the eyes of others.

These are the hermit crabs, said one of the mermaids. They steal these shells and live in them so no enemies can attack them. Don't they get lonesome? asked Trot. Perhaps so, my dear. But they do not seem to mind being lonesome. They are great cowards, and think if they can but protect their lives there is nothing else to care for.

Sin embargo —dijo el Espantapájaros—, yo pediré un cerebro en vez de un corazón, pues un tonto sin sesos no sabría qué hacer con su corazón si lo tuviera. —Yo prefiero el corazón —replicó el Leñador—, porque el cerebro no lo hace a uno feliz, y la felicidad es lo mejor que hay en el mundo. Dorothy guardó silencio; ignoraba cuál de sus dos amigos tenía la razón

The sailor man had one meat leg and one hickory leg, and he often said the wooden one was the best of the two.

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.

Quick!" cried the Scarecrow, "let us

Advice doesn't cost anything - unless you follow it.

In the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip. There was more to his name than that, for old Mombi often declared that his whole name was Tippetarius; but no one was expected to say such a long word when "Tip" would do just as well.

Aren't you good for ANYthing? asked Trot. Yes, I'm pretty to look at, and that's more than can be said of you, retorted the creature.