Famous quotes containing the word astonish:
“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)
“It would astonish if not amuse, the older citizens of your County who twelve years ago knew me a stranger, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working on a flat boat—at ten dollars per month to learn that I have been put down here as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)