Fortune Cookie Quotes - Page 2

• Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Birthday, Time

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903)

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• Outward success alienates a man from himself.

  James T. Hill

  Men

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• The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Finals, Judgment, Intuitive

  Alfred P Sloan (2015). “My Years With General Motors”, p.16, eNet Press

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• Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

  Charles Dickens

  Baby, World, Lasts

  Nicholas Nickleby Ch. 36

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• What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

  Voltaire

  Birthday, Loss, Aggravation

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• Only the educated are free.

  Epictetus

  Life, Education, Teacher

  Epictetus (2012). “Discourses (Books 1 and 2)”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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• Everything bows to success, even grammar.

  Victor Hugo

  Bows, Grammar

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Cookies

  FaceBook post by Meg Cabot from Jan 22, 2012

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• In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.

  Bruce Barton

  Business, Humor, People

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

  Charles Handy

  Heart, People, Three

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• 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

  Spiritual, Order, Promise

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• 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.

  Mike Patton

  Song, Sunshine, Land

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Life, Children, Editors

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

  Neal Boortz

  Cookies, Economics, Enough

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• 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.

  George Eliot

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Time

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• A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

  Arnold Bennett

  Birthday, Retirement, Years

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

  Veronica Roth

  Reading, Live Your Life, Cookies

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• 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

  Wise, Book, Men

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.'

  Sam Levenson

  Happy Birthday, Son, Hands

  Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.5, Open Road Media

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• Love of action is not industry.

  Seneca the Younger

  Action, Industry

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

  Robert Orben

  Successful, Common, Cold

  Robert Orben (1979). “2500 jokes to start 'em laughing”, Doubleday Books

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• 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

  Chinese, President, Dollars

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• 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

  Funny, Real, Humor

  "Woody Allen on Faith, Fortune Tellers and New York". Interview with Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. September 14, 2010.

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• For children is there any happiness which is not also noise?

  Frederick William Faber

  Children, Noise

  Frederick William Faber (1860). “Spiritual conferences”, p.57

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• Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.

  Dimitris Mitropoulos

  Success, Achievement, Usefulness

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