I can’t give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.
You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
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.
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.
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.
Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.
When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.
A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.
You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.
No, indeed; I don’t know anything. You see, I am stuffed, so I have no brains at all.
I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.
It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.
It is kindness that makes one strong and brave; and so we are kind to our prisoners.
Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.
Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then – oh, why can’t I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can’t I.
In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.
He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them.
The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.