Rinkitink in Oz Quotes

“Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“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.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“Like all bullies and marauders, Gos was a coward at heart”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“Tarts and tadpoles!...The boy is still alive!”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled with wonders”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“Please make yourselves at home here for a few minutes, while I attend to an errand," said the Nome King, getting up from the throne. "I shall return pretty soon, when I hope to find you pieceful—ha, ha, ha!—that's a joke you can't appreciate now but will later. Be pieceful—that's the idea. Ho, ho, ho! How funny." Then he waddled from the cavern, closing the door behind him.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“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. The many ups and downs should not discourage us, for if we are down, we know that a change is coming and we will go up again; while those who are up are almost certain to go down.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“The nomes are immortal; that is, they do not perish, as mortals do, unless they happen to come in contact with an egg. If an egg touches them—either the outer shell or the inside of the egg—the nomes lose their charm of perpetual life and thereafter are liable to die through accident or old age, just as all humans are.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“He laughs best who laughs last,' and the only way to laugh last is to give the other fellow a chance. Where did that knife come from, I wonder.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“Really, King Kaliko, we ought to be friends, we're so much alike in everything but disposition and intelligence.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“I have been safe from molestation for many years, because I was poor and possessed nothing that anyone else could envy. But if you make me rich and prosperous I shall at once become the prey of thieves and marauders and probably will lose my life in the attempt to protect my fortune.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“But anyway his heart is kind and gentle and that is better than being wise.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“poor people are often obliged to take chances that rich ones are spared.”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz

“hippolorum,”
― L. Frank Baum, Rinkitink in Oz