Fortune Cookies

These are quotes from actual fortune cookies I or my girlfriend have received.

A feeling is an idea with roots.
A happy event will take place in your home.
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
- Attributed to Frank Capra by IMDb.
A perfect statue never comes from a bad mould.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
- Annie Dillard, in The Writing Life.
Behind an able man. There are always.
- Sentence fragments? According to Quotes.net, there is a Chinese proverb that goes, "Behind an able man there are always other able men."
By helping someone today, you may also be helping yourself.
Consolidate rather than expand business projects in the near future.
Depend on the predictability and steadiness of life to support you.
Do not let ambitions overshadow small success.
Do not underestimate yourself. Human beings have unlimited potentials.
Everyone agrees you are the best.
Failure is the tuition you pay for success.
- According to this site (and others), this quote comes from Walter Brunell.
- http://thinkexist.com/quotation/failure_is_the_tuition_you_pay_for_success/254197.html
- http://searchquotes.com/quotation/Failure_is_the_tuition_you_pay_for_success./29374/
Good things will come to you in due course of time.
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
- Misattributed to the Qur'an.
He who waits to do a great deal of good all at once, will never do anything.
- Attributed to Samuel Johnson by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert under "Beneficence" in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (Wilbur B. Ketcham: New York, 1895), p. 25, where it is written as:
  - He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any thing.
Hope is the best stimulant of life.
Love is a present that can be given every single day you live.
Not even a school teacher notices bad grammar in a compliment.
- If I were a school teacher, I would totally notice said bad grammar.
Old dreams never die; they just get filed away.
One dreamed of becoming somebody. Another remained awake and became.
Only the educated are free.
- This quote comes from Epictetus.
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.
- Confucious, as cited in Book XVII, §3 of The Sayings of Confucius (Harvard Classics, Vol. 44, Part 1).
Opportunity is knocking at your front door.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
- Matthew 12:34
  - γεννηματα εχιδνων πως δυνασθε αγαθα λαλειν πονηροι οντες εκ γαρ του περισσευματος της καρδιας το στομα λαλει
    - You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ English Standard Version (ESV)
    - You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)
    - O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB)
    - O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ Modern English Version (MEV)
    - Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ New King James Version (NKJV)
    - You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
    - You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
    - You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)
    - You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
    - You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ Revised Standard Version (RSV)
    - You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ~ Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
    - You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. ~ World English Bible (WEB)
Professionalism is knowing how to do it, when to do it, and doing it.
- What does it mean to know doing it? If you ask me, incorporating bad grammar into fortune cookies is very unprofessional.
- According to this site (and others), this quote comes from Frank Tyger.
- http://thinkexist.com/quotation/professionalism_is_knowing_how_to_do_it-when_to/253177.html
- http://www.worldofquotes.com/quote/36658/index.html
Stuff happens. It is your response that counts.
Sell you ideas- they are totally acceptable.
- Acceptability is such a high standard, after all.
The fun side of a relationship begins to unfold.
The sky seems small if it is looked at from the bottom of the well.
The smart thing is to prepare for the unexpected.
- Mony Mutual of New York slogan:
  - The smart thing is to prepare for the unexpected. The smart way is with insurance from MONY.
  - If the phrase appeared prior to the Mony slogan, I've not found it.
The time is right to make new friends.
Think of mother's exhortations more.
This is the year when ingenuity stands high on the list.
Time is the wisest counselor.
- Pericles said, "Time is the wisest counselor of all"; as quoted in Until Tomorrow Comes (1979) by Orville E. Kelly, p. 160.
Watch out for little problems that could get a lot bigger.
You are soon going to change your present line to work.
You will enjoy good health; you will be surrounded by luxury.
You will find an outlet for your creative genius and accomplish a great deal.

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