01UndatedThe wonderful wizard of Oz - when was a child I loved the movie and I read the book when I got older and made me amazingL. Frank Baum / quote ↗
02UndatedIn this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wondersL. Frank Baum / quote ↗
03UndatedIt's a bird of some sort. It's like a duck, only I never saw a duck have so many colors."The bird swam swiftly and gracefully toward the Magic Isle, and as it drew nearer its gorgeously colored plumage astonished them. The feathers were of many hues of glistening greens and blues and purples, and it had a yellow head with a red plume, and pink, white and violet in its tail.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
04UndatedAll magic is unnatural, and for that reason is to be feared and avoided ~ The ScarecrowL. Frank Baum / quote ↗
05UndatedThe Glass Cat is one of the most curious creatures in all Oz. It was made by a famous magician named Dr. Pipt before Ozma had forbidden her subjects to work magic. Dr. Pipt had made the Glass Cat to catch mice, but the Cat refused to catch mice and was considered more curious than useful.This astonishing cat was made all of glass and was so clear and transparent that you could see through it as easily as through a window. In the top of its head, however, was a mass of delicate pink balls which looked like jewels but were intended for brains. It had a heart made of a blood-red ruby. The eyes were two large emeralds. But, aside from these colors, all the rest of the animal was of clear glass, and it had a spun-glass tail that was really beautiful.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
06UndatedCan't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow."You don't need them. You are learning something every day. 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.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
07UndatedIf 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.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
09UndatedThe reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good." L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
10UndatedNow then, Mr. Crab," said the zebra, "here are the people I told you about; and they know more than you do, who live in a pool, and more than I do, who live in a forest. For they have been travelers all over the world, and know every part of it.""There's more of the world than Oz," declared the crab, in a stubborn voice."That is true," said Dorothy; "but I used to live in Kansas, in the United States, and I've been to California and to Australia--and so has Uncle Henry.""For my part," added the Shaggy Man, "I've been to Mexico and Boston and many other foreign countries.""And I," said the Wizard, "have been to Europe and Ireland.""So you see," continued the zebra, addressing the crab, "here are people of real consequence, who know what they are talking about.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
11UndatedPerhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
13UndatedNo matter how dreary and grey 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.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
14UndatedWithout knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
15UndatedDorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange landL. Frank Baum / quote ↗
16UndatedIf we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
17UndatedI can tell the time, though, by speak-ing, and as I nev-er sleep I can wak-en you at an-y hour you wish to get up in the morn-ing.''That's nice,' said the little girl; 'only I never wish to get up in the morning.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
19UndatedThis is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
20UndatedNot willingly," admitted the tiger. "But here is the alternative; either you transform yourself into an eye for our child, or I and my dear wife will tear you into shreds.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
22UndatedAll the same,' said the Scarecrow,'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.''I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman,'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
24UndatedToto 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.L. Frank Baum / quote ↗
