Fortune Cookie Fortune Sayings

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

Charles De Gaulle

#2. I tucked this thought inside me like a fortune into a cookie.

Meg Howrey

#3. 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

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

Delaine Moore

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Veronica Roth

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Charles Handy

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Mason Cooley

#14. 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

#15. 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

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

Adam Ross

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

William J. Clinton

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

Lauren Bjorkman

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Frederick William Faber

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

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#23. 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

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

Hector Elizondo

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

Huntley Fitzpatrick

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

Alfred P. Sloan

#27. 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

#28. Love of action is not industry.

Seneca The Younger

#29. 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

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

E.A. Bucchianeri

#31. The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.

Kelly Creagh

#32. A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step.

Laozi

#33. A foolish man thinks he knows everything. A wise man knows he doesn't," Finn replied absently, still looking down at the book.
"That's such a fortune-cookie answer," I said with a laugh, and even he smirked at me.

Amanda Hocking

#34. To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

Woody Allen

#35. I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer!

Meg Cabot

#36. Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.

Mason Cooley

#37. And to go forward, you need to get rid of your anger. And in order to do that, you need to go back to the past," Mike said.
"You sound like a fortune cookie.

Amy Lignor

#38. Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie.

Dave Barry

#39. Of all the thoughts we think, it's only those that actually manifest themselves that seem significant. But the thoughts just before the event are like the fortune in the cookie. The fortune's as random as the thought. - Nathan Harold

Adam Ross

#40. Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

Henry David Thoreau

#41. Help someone when they're in trouble, and they'll remember you when they're in trouble again. - FORTUNE COOKIE

Darynda Jones

#42. Most Americans don't know enough about basic economics to fill out one fortune cookie.

Neal Boortz

#43. Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.

Robert Orben

#44. I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

Thom Yorke

#45. In the Fortune Cookie of Life, I don't want to be known as anonymous.

Julie Eberhart Painter

#46. If we followed our own advice, we'd be successful.

Fred Astaire

#47. Outward success alienates a man from himself.

James T. Hill

#48. Fate will come looking for you. Don't bother hiding

Lauren Bjorkman

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

Elvis Costello