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The secret to humor is surprise. - Aristotle

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. - Alice Walker

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

Sometimes I drink water just to surprise my liver. - WC Fields

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. - Joe Moore

I would love to voice an animated penguin or platypus at some point. - Jack Falahee

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

The husband who desires to surprise is often very much surprised himself. - Voltaire

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. - Al Gore

The story of Easter is the story of God's wonderful window of divine surprise. - Carl Knudsen

If you look like your passport photo, then in all probability you need the journey. - Earl Wilson

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. - Pamela Anderson

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

That the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from heaven. - Hideki Tojo

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. - Lisa Alther

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer. - David Hallberg

I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic. - Will Estes

I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long. - Rachael Ray

Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. - Joni Eareckson Tada

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Animals are not our selfie props. If there's any risk that your photo is going to hurt or stress an animal, it's not worth it. - Angela Henderson

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going. - Alison Gopnik