Quotes from L. Frank Baum

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

"It's a mystery," replied the Lion. "I suppose I was born that way. All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts. I learned that if I roared very loudly every living thing was frightened and got out of my way."

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

If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with.

All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

I'm really a very good man; but I'm a very bad Wizard.

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

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.

The wicked Witch of the East.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

There is no place like home.

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.

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

I shall take the heart. [...] For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

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

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

How very wet this water is.

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.