Top 200 L. Frank Baum Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”

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2. “Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”

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3. “A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.”

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4. “No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”

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5. “There is no place like home.”

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6. “I’ll miss you most of all scarecrow.”

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7. “Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”

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8. “Now I know I’ve got a heart because it is breaking. – Tin Man.”

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9. “Never give up. No one knows what’s going to happen next.”

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10. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!”

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11. “Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.”

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12. ““You have some queer friends, Dorothy,” she said. “The queerness doesn’t matter, so long as they’re friends,” was the answer.”

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13. “If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.”

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14. “East, west – home’s best!”

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15. “True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...”

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16. “How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain? I don’t know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking.”

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17. “Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. – Wizard.”

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18. “You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.”

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19. “I can’t give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.”

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20. “Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t you think?”

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21. “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.”

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22. “That proves you are unusual,? returned the Scarecrow; ’and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.”

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23. “You had the power all along, my dear.”

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24. “Lions and tigers, and bears, oh my! – Dorothy in Wizard of Oz.”

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25. “I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “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.”

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28. “She is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil.”

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29. “The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.”

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30. “The only way to do a thing Is do it when you can, And do it cheerfully, and sing And work and think and plan. The only real unhappy one Is he who dares to shirk; The only really happy one Is he who cares to work.”

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31. “There’s no place like HOME.”

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32. “To ‘know Thyself’ is considered quite an accomplishment.”

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33. “Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous.”

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34. “Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.”

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35. “I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

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36. “If you are feeling blue, don’t forget to breathe.”

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37. “I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.”

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38. “Si caminamos lo suficiente, alguna vez llegaremos a alguna parte.”

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39. “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.”

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40. “But how about my courage?” asked the Lion anxiously. “You have plenty of courage, I am sure,” answered Oz. “All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.” “Perhaps.”

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41. “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.”

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42. “In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.”

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43. “My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.”

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44. “Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.”

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45. “It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.”

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46. “But once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.”

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47. “The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization.”

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48. “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.”

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49. “Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.”

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50. “But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.”

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