“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“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.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
- Wizard”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“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.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“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.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking.
- Tin Man”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.
”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?
I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“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.
”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Oh - You're a very bad man!"
Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world."
Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow.
No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“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.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness.
- Wicket Witch of the North”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow.
"You don't need them. You are learning something every day. 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.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“...and remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“During the year I stood there I had known was the loss of my heart. While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning.
~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“He is my dog, Toto," answered Dorothy.
"Is he made of tin, or stuffed?" asked the Lion.
"Neither. He's a-- a-- a meat dog," said the girl.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“I am Oz, the Great and Terrible,"
spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar.
Who are you, and why do you seek me?”
― L. Frank Baum, quote from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Born place: in Chittenango, New York, The United States
Born date May 15, 1856
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“The others ignored him, busy doing what men generally do in dangerous times: putting on their trousers.”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Time Paradox
“Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from Of Love and Other Demons
“If you'll kiss me back," he whispered huskily, brushing his lips along the curve of her jaw, "I'll make it six million. If you'll go to bed with me tonight," he continued, losing himself in the scent of her perfume and the softness of her skin, "I'll give you the world. But if you'll move in with me," he continued, dragging his mouth across her cheek to the corner of her lips, "I'll do much better than that." Unable to turn her face farther because his arm was in the way, and unable to turn her body because his body was in the way, Meredith tried to infuse disdain in her voice and simultaneously ignore the arousing touch of his tongue against her ear. "Six million dollars and the whole world!" she said in a slightly shaky voice. "What else could you possibly give me if I move in with you?" "Paradise.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Paradise
“Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.”
― John Green, quote from Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances
“True learning only occurs when you love the subject you are studying and then the acquiring of knowledge is effortless because it is also a pleasure.”
― William Boyd, quote from Any Human Heart
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