Surprise Onside Kicks

Famous quotes containing the words surprise and/or kicks:

“Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)

“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)