Famous quotes containing the word astonish:
“Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The only thing that should astonish us is that anything can yet astonish us.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)