326 Quotes by L. Frank Baum

It'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.

Childhood is the time of man's greatest content. 'Tis during these years of innocent pleasure that the little ones are most free from care. [...] Their joy is in being alive, and they do not stop to think. In after-years the doom of mankind overtakes them, and they find they must struggle and worry, work and fret, to gain the wealth that is so dear to the hearts of men.

No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

Lions and tigers and Funkyoid, oh my!

La experiencia es la única fuente de conocimientos y cuanto más permanezcas sobre la tierra, más experiencia tendrás

La verdadera valentía está en hacer frente al peligro cuando se tiene miedo

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

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