Quotes from L. Frank Baum

Why hasn't anybody seen a mermaid and lived? asked Trot again. 'Cause mermaids is fairies, an' ain't meant to be seen by us mortal folk, replied Cap'n Bill. But if anyone happens to see 'em, what then, Cap'n? Then, he answered, slowly wagging his head, the mermaids give 'em a smile an' a wink, an' they dive into the water an' gets drownded.

I never criticise my friends. If they are really true friends, they may be anything they like, for all of me.

when you marry a girl, you marry the inside as well as the outside

Seems to me, said Cap'n Bill, as he sat beside Trot under the big acacia tree, looking out over the blue ocean, seems to me, Trot, as how the more we know, the more we find we don't know.

Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

Enquanto eu estava apaixonado era o homem mais feliz do mundo.

With the point of his knife he made two round eyes, a three-cornered nose, and a mouth shaped like a new moon.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.

One might think you knew all about witches, to hear you chatter. But your words prove you to be very ignorant of the subject. You may find good people and bad people in the world; and so, I suppose, you may find good witches and bad witches.

If I'm going to starve, I'll do it all at once--not by degrees.

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings.