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“The secret to humor is surprise.”
Aristotle
“History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy”
Karl von Clausewitz
“Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, it's unplanned, it's full of surprises.”
Erma Bombeck
“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”
Alice Walker
“A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.”
Charles de Gaulle
“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.”
“Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.”
Stephen King
“The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.”
Voltaire
