No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow – The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13.
If we didn’t want anything, we would never get anything, good or bad. I think our longings are natural, and if we act as nature prompts us we can’t go far wrong.
No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.
Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.
It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.
One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition.
Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.
To ‘know Thyself’ is considered quite an accomplishment.
For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.
I’ll miss you most of all, Scarecrow.
Now I know I’ve got a heart because it is breaking. – Tin Man.
Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.
It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.
I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.
To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there’s no fun in it at all.
And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.