L. Frank Baum Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

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!

As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

A curious thing about Ugu the Shoemaker was that he didn't suspect in the least that he was wicked. He wanted to be powerful and great, and he hoped to make himself master of all the Land of Oz that he might compel everyone in that fairy country to obey him, His ambition blinded him to the rights of others, and he imagined anyone else would act just as he did if anyone else happened to be as clever as himself.

Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.

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

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved.