So the Woodman raised his axe, and as the Wildcat ran by he gave it a quick blow that cut the beast's head clean off from its body, and it rolled over at his feet in two pieces.
There's lots o' things folks don't 'preciate," replied the sailor-man. "If somethin' would 'most stop your breath, you'd think breathin' easy was the finest thing in life.
And I' declared the Sawhorse, filling an awkward pause, 'am only remarkable because I can't help it.
Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
You're more than that," said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone; "you're a humbug." "Exactly so!" declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. "I am a humbug.
Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.
No Queen with a frozen heart is fit to rule any country.
But why fight at all, in that case?" asked the girl. "So I may die with a clear conscience," returned the Wizard, gravely. "It's every man's duty to do the best he knows how; and I'm going to do it.
It wouldn't matter," remarked the educated Woggle-Bug. "he can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.
My heart is quite the best part of me.
There is no place like home.
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.
We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another.
It was a terrible thing to do undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart.
An unsuspected enemy is doubly dangerous.
The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.
Thanks for good deeds do not amount to much except to prove one's politeness.
To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.
People often do a good deed without hope of reward, but for an evil deed they always demand payment.
Scoundrel? We do not call Senhor Valcour that. He is faithful to the Emperor, who employs him. Shall we, who are unfaithful, blame him for his fidelity?
The Emerald City has been ruled by men long enough.
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.
Can't you give me brains?" asked the Scarecrow. "You don't need them. You are learning something every day. 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.
Well," said Dorothy, "I was born on a farm in Kansas, and I guess that's being just as 'spectable and haughty as living in a cave with a tail tied to a rock. If it isn't I'll have to stand it, that's all.
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.
Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.
For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king's decree of a scholar's essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature and endures through many generations.
How shall we cross the river?
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 and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
An educated Woggle-Bug may be a new thing; but a Woggle-Bug education is as old as the hills, judging from the display you make of it.
Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.
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.
Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.
But I do not want people to call me a fool, and if my head stays stuffed with straw instead of with brains, as yours is, how am I ever to know anything?" "I.
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.
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.
She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.
I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
Was Ozma once a boy?" asked Zeb, wonderingly. "Yes; a wicked witch enchanted her, so she could not rule her kingdom. But she's a girl now, and the sweetest, loveliest girl in all the world.
The generals commanded the colonels and the colonels commanded the majors and the majors commanded the captains and the captains commanded the private, who marched with an air of proud importance because it required so many officers to give him his orders.
The beauty of life is its sudden changes. No one knows what is going to happen next, and so we are constantly being surprised and entertained.
I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such small things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is!
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.
They seemed happy and contented, though," remarked the Wizard, "and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.
A good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains.
Nothing can resist your kind heart and your sharp axe.
Quick! cried the Scarecrow, let us.
This Guph was really a clever rascal, and it seems a pity he was so bad, for in a good cause he might have accomplished much.
