L. Frank Baum famous quotes

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.
-- L. Frank Baum

#Faces #Needs #Kind

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

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?
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#Thinking #Talking #People

And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.
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#Heart #Sentimental #Remember

That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
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#People #Tree #World

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
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#Alive #Good Things #Very Good

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.
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#Gratitude #Home #Heart

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
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#Waste #Wasting Time #Reason

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

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.
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#Relationship #Heartbreak #Thinking

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.
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#Inspirational #Life #Dream

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
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#Blue #Breathing #Life And Death

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.
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#Children #Taken #Dwarves

I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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#Inspirational #Learning #Giving

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.
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#Beautiful #Country #Home

I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
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#Heart #Brain #World

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

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

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.
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#Dark #Civilization #America

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.
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#Thinking #Mirrors #Looks

People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.
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#Home #People

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
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#Dream #Blue #Sky

…and the next moment all of them were filled with wonder. For they saw, standing in just the spot the screen had hidden, a little old man, with a bald head and a wrinkled face, who seemed to be as much surprised as they were.
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#Men #Next #Faces

I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.
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#Missing #I Ll Miss You #Scarecrow

How very wet this water is.
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#Water

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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#Country #College #Numbers

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

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.
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#Beautiful #Kansas #People

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.
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#Thinking #World #This 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
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#Land #Life Is #Unusual

He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy. "Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion. "Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl.
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#Girl #Dog #Lions

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.
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But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.' 'Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman. 'It may be,' said the Lion.
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#Kings #Eye #Heart

Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! - Dorothy in Wizard of Oz
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#Wizards #Lions #Bears

Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot?~Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz
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#Elephants #Sphinx #Flags

If 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.
-- L. Frank Baum

#Thinking #Want #Longing

No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.
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#Country #Queens #Heart

A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and great, and he hoped to make himself master of all the Land of Oz that he might compel everyone in that fairy country to obey him, His ambition blinded him to the rights of others, and he imagined anyone else would act just as he did if anyone else happened to be as clever as himself.
-- L. Frank Baum

#Country #Clever #Powerful

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. So I believe that day dreams with your eyes wide open are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.
-- L. Frank Baum

#Dream #Children #Believe

The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
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#Church #Devil #Legendary

Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.
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#Beautiful #Flower #Action

Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,
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#Beautiful #May #Beautiful Things

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,
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#Beautiful #Children #World

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.
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#Heart #Brain #Fool

You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.
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#Grateful #Land #People

No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.
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#Brain

There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home.
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#Home

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.
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#Lovely #Looks #Ugly

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.
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#Feelings #Fool #Uncomfortable

Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.
-- L. Frank Baum

#Men #Good Man #Promise

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.
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Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.
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#Inspirational #Life #Wizards

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz
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#Party #Wicked #West

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.
-- L. Frank Baum

#Sweet #Children #Heart