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.
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.
If I had a heart.
Do not, I beg of you, dampen today’s sun with the showers of tomorrow.
We dare not harm this little girl,” he said to them, “for she is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil. All we can do is carry her to the castle of the Wicked Witch and leave her there.
This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.
Don’t tell anyone I’m a poet; they might want me to write a book. Don’t tell ’em I can sing, or they’d want me to make records for that awful phonograph. Haven’t time to be a public benefactor, so I’ll just sing you this little song for your own amusement.
Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” cried Dorothy, clasping her hands together in dismay. “The house must have fallen on her. Whatever shall we do?
It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
If you are feeling blue, don’t forget to breathe.
Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.
It was a good fight, friend.
It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.
I believe that dreams – day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing – are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.
Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t you think?
But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.
True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...
To please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one’s heart and brings its own reward.
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.