Lame Fortune Cookie Sayings

#1. One of the most interesting and harmful delusions to which men and nations can be subjected is that of imagining themselves special instruments of the Divine Will.

Bertrand Russell

#2. Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they are. So tell me which is worse.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. Defeat held no honor.

Johanna Lindsey

#4. The greatness of the human being consists in this:
that it is capable of the universe.

Thomas Aquinas

#5. Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.

Kate Spade

#6. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path

Antonio Machado

#7. What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

Bernie Ecclestone

#8. Country schooling was little more than a cane-wacking interlude in which boys picked up facts like bruises and the girls scarcely counted at all ...

Laurie Lee

#9. Because I'm the best fuck in the solar system. (Toreth)

Manna Francis

#10. Your self is sacred; be true to it.

Paul Brunton

#11. One word of caution - be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

David P. Ingerson

#12. Aimlessly
It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No
One listens to poetry.
- from Thing Language

Jack Spicer

#13. Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'

Penn Jillette