Fortune Cookie Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Ideas, Cookies

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

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• Love of action is not industry.

  Seneca the Younger

  Action, Industry

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

  Mason Cooley

  Advice, Flying, Palaces

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humor, Chinese

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Twitter... 140 character limit... must be a great tool for fortune cookie writers.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Character, Limits, Tools

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• 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

  Hands, Things In Life, People

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.28, Penguin

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• If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.

  Antonin Scalia

  Rights, Gay Marriage, Promise

  "This Scalia Zinger Is the Funniest Footnote to Come Out of the Supreme Court This Term" by Shane Ferro, www.businessinsider.com. June 26, 2015.

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