This gem is from my fortune-cookie-fortune wall here at the office.
"Depart not from the path which fate has you assigned."
Query: If fate has assigned it, how could you depart even if you wanted to? Doesn't fate affect our wills too?
And I adore the word order. It's so English-as-a-second-language.
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So my fortune-cookie-fortune of the other day said "You would make a good lawyer."
I laughed.
Last year I had "team time" at the beginning of each day, which meant I and 4 other teachers were supposed to meet together to talk about kids. But as this was an exceptionally non-linear group of people, we of course also ate fortune cookies. Makes sense to me... And we would read them aloud to one another, ending with the prepositional phrase "in the classroom." And when our principal came to visit, we would make him crack open a fortune cookie as well and finish it with "in the office." I enjoyed this tradition so much that on my birthday my coworkers got me a bag of fortune cookies, an envelope filled with prepositional phrases on little slips of paper, and instructed me to open one a class period and email them the results. My personal favorite was "To have a friend, you must be a friend... with the xerox machine."
Words to live by.
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