Surprise

Famous quotes containing the word surprise:

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

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

“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)