Surprise

Famous quotes containing the word surprise:

    Extreme patience and persistence are required,
    Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed
    The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)