L. Frank Baum World Quotations

Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

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

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

All the same,' said the Scarecrow, '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.' 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.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,

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.