“He never fails to hit the target. But that was a miss.”
Bobby Robson (1933–2009) English association football player and manager
"Sir Bobby Robson: his most memorable quotes," 2009
“412. He that seekes trouble never misses.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Source: Space Chantey (1968), Ch. 5, on Polyphemia
Context: Roadstrum had always believed that he had troubles enough of his own. He seldom borrowed trouble, and never on usurious terms. He knew that it was a solid thing that sheep do not gather in taverns and drink beer, not even potato beer; that they do not sing, not even badly; that they do not tell stories. But a stranger can easily make trouble for himself on a strange world by challenging local customs.
"But I am the greet Roadstrum," he said, suddenly and loudly. "I am a great one for winning justice for the lowly, and I do not scare easily. I threw the great Atlas at the wrestle, and who else can say as much? I suffer from the heroic sickness every third day about nightfall, and I am not sure whether this is the third day or not. I say you are men and not sheep. I say: Arise and be men indeed!"
"It has been tried before," said Roadstrum's friend, the sheep, "and it didn't work."
"You have tried a revolt, and it failed?"
"No, no, another man tried to incite us to revolt, and failed."
“Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you”
Katie Fforde (1952) British novelist (1952-)
Second Thyme Around
“He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: The Fall Into Time (1964), p. 178, first American edition (1970)
“Unable to corrupt, seek to destroy;
And where their Poysons miss, the Sword employ.”
Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) British writer
Book I, lines 105-106
Davideis (1656)
“The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
Abba Eban (1915–2002) Israeli diplomat and politician
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).
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean