L. Frank Baum
"It must be inconvenient to be made of flesh," said the Scarecrow thoughtfully, "for you must sleep, and eat and drink. However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly."Collection: Sleep
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.Collection: Please Me
…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.Collection: Men
The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.Collection: Heart
I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?Collection: Voice
I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.Collection: Missing
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.Collection: Grateful
My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the NorthCollection: Beautiful
No, indeed; I don't know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.Collection: Brain
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.Collection: Heart
One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.Collection: Lovely
No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Girl
I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp...Collection: Fame
Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.Collection: Inspirational
If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.Collection: Men
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Country
To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.Collection: Accomplishment
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Brain
Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.Collection: Class
An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Beautiful
It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.Collection: Thinking
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.Collection: Awe
Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.Collection: Thinking
Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.Collection: Beautiful
It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.Collection: Thinking
If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.Collection: Enough
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!Collection: Gratitude
My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.Collection: Eye
I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.Collection: Thinking
But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.Collection: Alive
I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.Collection: Likes
We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.Collection: Sorry
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 13Collection: Land
Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin ManCollection: Heart
“And I,” declared the SawHorse, filling in an awkward pause, “am only remarkable because I can't help it.”Collection: Awkward
Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.Collection: Wise
I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Children
. . .It is the Law that while Evil, unopposed, may accomplish terrible deeds, the power of Good can never be overthrown when opposed to Evil. . .Collection: Law
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.Collection: Kings
How very wet this water is.Collection: Water
It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.Collection: Strong
It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.Collection: Uncomfortable Feeling