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"I would not be too surprised to see a flying horse; I would consider it as a gift of the evolution; but I would be very surprised if it had horseshoe sounds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"NEVER be surprised by your own success!" »Steve Maraboli
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"To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand." »Jose Ortega y Gasset
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"Behind every successful man is a surprised woman." »Maryon Pearson
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"A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him." »Charles De Gaulle
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"At the moment of death I hope to be surprised." »Ivan Illich
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"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." »John F. Kennedy
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"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law." »Hubert Humphrey
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word." »Charles De Gaulle
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"Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have." »Ernest Haskins
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"It is the person who is blind to what goes on around him that is most surprised when the same things happen to him." »M. Thompson
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"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised." »Denis Watley
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"The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." »Gracie Allen
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"If you ever go temporarily insane, don't shoot somebody, like a lot of people do. Instead, try to get some weeding done, because you'd really be surprised." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." »Dorothy Parker
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"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do." »Samuel Butler
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"Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance." »Judge Learned Hand, Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29,1955
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"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought." »Dwight D. Morrow
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"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways." »Samuel McChord Crothers
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"Be not surprised if thou findest thyself in possession of unexpected wealth. Allah will provide an unexpected use for it." »James J. Roche
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned." »James Arthur Baldwin
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"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don’t be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you." »Claude M. Bristol
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"If I was the head of a country that lost a war, and I had to sign a peace treaty, just as I was signing I'd glance over the treaty and then suddenly act surprised. 'Wait a minute I thought WE won'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"All in all, I am not surprised that the people who want to unravel the social contract start with young adults. Those who are urged to feel afraid, very afraid, have both the greatest sense of independence and the most finely honed skepticism about government." »Ellen Goodman
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"Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead." »Charles M. Schwab
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"I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor." »Mark Twain
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