Quotes from L. Frank Baum

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.

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.

I think you are a very bad man," said Dorothy. "Oh, no, my dear; I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.

For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.

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

During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.

Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

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.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

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.

True courage is in facing damger when you are afraid.