326 Quotes by L. Frank Baum

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

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.

To be called beautiful was a novelty in his experience.

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

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

People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.

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.

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.

In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders