326 Quotes by L. Frank Baum

Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then – oh, why can’t I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can’t I.

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 reason most people are bad is because they do not try to be good.” L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz, 1910.

We live in an age of progress,” announced Professor Wogglebug, pompously. “It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends?” “Some.

The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that’s all right.

All your troubles are due to those ‘ifs’,” declared the Wizard.

I have heard, my dear friend, that a person can become over-educated; and although I have a high respect for brains, no matter how they may be arranged or classified, I begin to suspect that yours are slightly tangled. In any event, I must beg you to restrain your superior education while in our society.

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.