Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu’on ne revient jamais d’une démarche précipitée.
Letter 33: La Marquise de Merteuil to le Vicomte de Valmont. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_33
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu'on ne revient jamais d'une démarche précipitée.
Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1782, Marquise de Merteuil
Variant: Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu’on ne revient jamais d’une démarche précipitée.
Character, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 978-0-87083-322-9
Letter to Mariano Ponce, (1890)
“The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
As quoted in The Jerusalem Post (18 November 2002) http://www.factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000491.html; often misquoted as "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." The quote is attributed to Abba Eban after the Geneva Peace Conference http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/geneva.html with Arab countries (21 December 1973).
“We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity.”
Quoted in "Enter Japan" - "Time Magazine" article - July 8, 1940
“The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.”
Marianne Means (September 26, 1986) "I Just Flew In From The White House - And, Boy, Are My Arms Tired", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, p. A10.
“It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.”
Quoted in "The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire" - Page 754 - by John Toland - History - 2003.
A King's Story http://books.google.com/books?id=D2a1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22only+two+rules+really+count+never+miss+an+opportunity+to+relieve+yourself+never+miss+a+chance+to+sit+down+and+rest+your+feet%22&pg=PA132#v=onepage (1951)
“I've learned…. That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.”
