“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).
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Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (1894–1972) king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936
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)
Witness Lee (1905–1997) Chinese Christian preacher
Character, of Witness Lee - By Living Stream Ministry, ISBN 978-0-87083-322-9
“I've learned…. That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.”
Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality
“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”
Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist
Source: The Year of Pleasures
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos book Les Liaisons dangereuses
Une occasion manquée se retrouve, tandis qu’on ne revient jamais d’une démarche précipitée. <br class="br">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 <br class="br">Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
Eric Roth (1945) American screenwriter
Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay