Top 30 Ever Fortune Cookie Quotes

#1. It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.

Charles De Gaulle

#2. At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'

Conan O'Brien

#3. Don't expect the answers overnight. This isn't a fortune cookie.
- The Duke to Delaine; discussing dating after divorce, Chapter 9

Delaine Moore

#4. I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

Anna Quindlen

#5. I'm also staring at the fortune cookie. Its got a lot of blood on it and I shrug and say, as jovially as I can, Oh, you know me.

Bret Easton Ellis

#6. What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie?
Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.

Veronica Roth

#7. Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Charles Handy

#9. According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.

Josh Lieb

#10. God didn't give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn't lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon all-you-can-eat sign. And God doesn't speak to people in bathrooms, public or otherwise.

Geoffrey Wood

#11. You know," he said, "at some point you're going to realize that being a smart-ass isn't as much about being smart as it is about being an ass." "That's good," I said. "Did you read that in a fortune cookie?

Garth Stein

#12. Good places for aphorisms: in fortune cookies, on bumper stickers, and on banners flying over the Palace of Free Advice.

Mason Cooley

#13. After all, you don't know how strong something is until you actually test it." She winked. "I read that in a fortune cookie once." "Fortune cookie?

Nicholas Sparks

#14. Josh: Just because you're not looking for something doesn't mean you won't find it.
Sean: Well, aren't you quite the fucking fortune cookie.

Shannon Stacey

#15. The thoughts just before the event are like the fortune in the cookie. The fortune's as random as the thought.

Adam Ross

#16. What you earn depends on what you learn.

William J. Clinton

#17. Like special fungus, your love will grow in strange places

Lauren Bjorkman

#18. God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#19. In 1918, a Chinese immigrant working in a Los Angeles noodle factory invented the fortune cookie. He did so believing that a cookie with a positive message in it would raise the spirits of the city's poor.

James Frey

#20. For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

Frederick William Faber

#21. Okay, I admit it: sometimes I sound like a fortune cookie

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#22. Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks.

Rodney Dangerfield

#23. Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Hector Elizondo

#24. Could this guy sound a little less like a fortune cookie on acid?

Huntley Fitzpatrick

#25. The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

Alfred P. Sloan

#26. Everybody, even those that don't like Chinese food, knew that you had to eat the cookie for the fortune to come true. And so he did.

Justin Swapp

#27. Love of action is not industry.

Seneca The Younger

#28. He digs out a fortune cookie fortune from his mouth, as if his mouth has a pocket. It says THE SIMPLEST ANSWER IS TO ACT. He hands it to me. I nod and put the fortune in my own mouth pocket.

A.S. King

#29. Thought for the day: Twitter ... 140 character limit ... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#30. Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

Elvis Costello

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