326 Quotes by L. Frank Baum

The Emerald City has been ruled by men long enough.

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

At noon they sat down by the roadside, near a little brook, and Dorothy.

Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.

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.

The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning.

But in the course of my wanderings I had the good fortune to save the ninth life of a tailor – tailors having, like cats, nine lives, as you probably know. The fellow was exceedingly grateful, for had he lost that ninth life it would have been the end of him; so he begged permission to furnish me with the stylish costume I now wear. It fits very nicely, does it not?

How shall we cross the river?

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t you think?