My Favorite Wizard of Oz Quotes - Happy 70th Anniversary!

The Wizard: A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

Dorothy: Your majesty, if you were king, you wouldn't be afraid of anything? Cowardly Lion: Not nobody. Not nohow.

Tin Woodsman: Not even a rhinoceros?

Cowardly Lion: Imposerous!

Dorothy: How about a hippopotamus?

Cowardly Lion: Why, I'd thrash him from top to bottomus.

Dorothy: Supposing you met an elephant?

Cowardly Lion: I'd knot him up in cellophant.

Scarecrow: What if it were a brontosaurus?

Cowardly Lion: I'd show him who was king of the forest.

Scarecrow: I don't know... But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking... don't they?

Auntie Em: Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!

Wizard of Oz: Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.

Cowardly Lion: [singing] I'm afraid there's no denyin' / I'm just a dandy-lion / A fate I don't deserve / I'm sure I could show my prowess / Be a lion, not a mouse / If I only had the nerve.

Cowardly Lion: Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the ape in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got?

Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman: Courage!

Cowardly Lion: You can say that again! Huh?

Dorothy: Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!