L. Frank Baum Quotes

"Why are you Ojo the Unlucky?" asked the tin man. "Because I was born on a Friday." "Friday is not unlucky," declared the Emperor. "It's just one of seven days. Do you suppose all the world becomes unlucky one-seventh of the time?" "It was the thirteenth day of the month," said Ojo. "Thirteen! Ah, that is indeed a lucky number," replied the Tin Woodman. "All my good luck seems to happen on the thirteenth. I suppose most people never notice the good luck that comes to them with the number 13, and yet if the least bit of bad luck falls on that day, they blame it to the number, and not to the proper cause."

Neither. He's a — a — a meat dog.

No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.

Dangers don't hurt us. Only things that happen ever hurt anyone, and a danger is a thing that might happen and might not happen, and sometimes don't amount to shucks.

"and the Lion," he said to the Woodman, "and the bees cannot sting them." This the Woodman did, and as Dorothy lay close beside the Lion

I'm glad I don't know everything, Dorothy, and that there still are things in both nature and in wit for me to marvel at.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

I find I learn much more by traveling than by staying at home.

When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor a house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.

All persons are usually judged by the shapes in which they appear to the eyes of others.

poor people are often obliged to take chances that rich ones are spared.

No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another.

No, indeed. I don’t know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all,” he answered sadly.

Folks gener'ly gets stuck-up 'cause they don't know theirselves like other folks knows 'em.

I have heard that Glinda is a beautiful woman, who knows how to keep young in spite of the many years she has lived.