"I shall take the heart," returned the Tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world." - L. Frank Baum

"Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!" chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. "But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?"

A beautiful girl is much superior to a little yellow bird, and a boy — such as I was — far better than a Green Monkey.

— Pero el León en realidad no es cobarde — dijo Dorothy — . Lo he visto comportarse de lo más valiente. — Te equivocas, querida — protestó el León — . Ante los ojos de los demás puedo haber parecido valiente algunas veces, pero nunca he estado en un peligro que no me haya dado miedo.