Source: Salem Falls
“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).
“Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound.”
Variant: You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.
Source: The Satanic Verses
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.”
“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”
Source: The Year of Pleasures
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)
2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”
As quoted in The Book of Quotes (1979) by Barbara Rowes, p. 164
