(noun) Something unexpected. Example: "It was a surprise to find out I owed twice as much as I thought I did."
"How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life."
"We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
"The secret to humor is surprise."
"It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection."
"Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law."
"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."
"Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not."
"The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds."
"Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between."
"Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy if possible."