Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced and the inconvenience is often considerable.
There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.
At the age of 19, you always think you are prepared for everything and you think you have the knowledge of what’s coming ahead.
A man surprised is half beaten.
Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
— Voltaire