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Love of action is not industry.
Sep 10, 2025
For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?
Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.
The final act of business judgment is intuitive.
Outward success alienates a man from himself.
Don't agonize, organize.
Forget goals. Value the process.
Success, remember is the reward of toil.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all.
What you earn depends on what you learn.
Life is a promise; fulfill it.
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
What thought or message would you put in a fortune cookie? "Stop reading this. Eat the cookie and live your life.
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.
I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different Frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.
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.
God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.
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!
Warning: fortune cookies don't care what happens to you.
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.
Success is never final.
Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.
Visiting Future World is like opening a Chinese fortune cookie to read, "Soon you'll be finished with dinner."
At the state dinner for Chinese President Hu Jintao, Hu opened a fortune cookie that said, 'You will lend us another trillion dollars.'
You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you.
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.
I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.
Everything bows to success, even grammar.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
If you have a lemon; make lemonade.
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
We tend to get what we expect.
Well begun is half done.
Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers.