326 Quotes by L. Frank Baum

Oz, the Great and Terrible.

Mr. Smith was an art-ist, as well as an in-vent-or, and he paint-ed a pic-ture of a riv-er which was so nat-ur-al that, as he was reach-ing a-cross it to paint some flow-ers on the op-po-site bank, he fell in-to the wa-ter and was drowned.

There’s no place like HOME.

He sent for the Long-Eared Hearer and asked him to listen carefully and report what was going on in the big world. “It seems,” said the Hearer, after listening for awhile, “that the women in America have clubs.” “Are there spikes in them?” asked Ruggedo, yawning. “I cannot hear any spikes, Your Majesty,” was the reply. “Then their clubs are not as good as my sceptre. What else do you hear?′ “There’s a war. “Bah! there’s always a war. What else?

For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king’s decree of a scholar’s essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature and endures through many generations.

I suppose I must start my brains working,” replied his Majesty the Scarecrow; “for experience has, taught me that I can do anything if I but take time to think it out.

I think you are a very good tiger,” said Dorothy, patting the huge head of the beast. “In that you are mistaken,” was the reply. “I am a good beast, perhaps, but a disgracefully bad tiger. For it is the nature of tigers to be cruel and ferocious, and in refusing to eat harmless living creatures I am acting as no good tiger has ever before acted. That is why I left the forest and joined my friend the Cowardly Lion.

To ‘know Thyself’ is considered quite an accomplishment.

People who are always understood are very common. You are sure to respect those you can’t understand, for you feel that perhaps they know more than you do.