Fortune Cookie Crumbles

Years ago, I collected fortune cookie fortunes, those little paper strips with quips of spurious wisdom and lists of lucky numbers. While unpacking this past week, I came across a list of those fortunes. Here are 20.

• The trouble with fun is that it often ends up as trouble.
  
• The dim haze of mystery will add enchantment to your life.
  
• The secret of a good memory is always to write things down.
  
• The secret of friendship is to build bridges instead of walls.
  
• Sweet Memories are the paradise of the mind.
  
• A thing of Beauty is a joy, but only while it remains in fashion.
  
• Since we cannot get what we wan, let us like what we can get.
  
• It is better to lend a hand than to lend sympathy.
  
• One often meets his destiny in the road he takes to avoid it.
  
• One learns most when teaching others.
  
• If you wish your worth to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
  
• Enthusiasm in a current project will lead to new job opportunities.
  
• The only way to inspire courtesy on the road is to drive a police car.
  
• Joys are often the shadows cast by sorrows.
  
• Let there be magic in your smile and firmness in your handshake.
  
• Your warmth is the glow which illuminates those around you.
  
• Education is the gradual discovery of how much we do not know.
  
• True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and others.
  
• You are most troubled when troubles are few.
  
• NOTHING: The best thing to buy when trying to save money.