
“And how could he know whether it was a good omen or not without another drink?”
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. VII (*p. 201)
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Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)

“Those in love do not know how to say good-bye: they are with one another all the time.”
The Furrow (1986)

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 21, Concerning Excise

“You must not grieve so heavily.
Better are good than evil omens.”
The Tale of Taleisin
Context: You must not grieve so heavily.
Better are good than evil omens.
though I am weak and small,
Spumed with Dylan's wave,
I shall be better for you
Than three hundred shares of salmon.

Michel Henry, Phénoménologie matérielle, éd. PUF, 1990, p. 178
Books on Phenomenology of Life, Material Phenomenology (1990)
Original: (co) La communauté est une nappe affective souterraine et chacun boit la même eau à cette source et à ce puits qu'il est lui-même – mais sans le savoir, sans se distinguer de lui-même, de l'autre ni du Fond.

“When asked what wine he liked to drink, he replied, "That which belongs to another."”
Diogenes, 6.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 6: The Cynics

“.. he [= Michelangelo] was a good man, but he did not know how to paint.”
Marina Lambraki-Plaka, El Greco - The Greek, p. 47–49; as cited on Wikipedia/El Greco
Quote of El Greco's response, when he was later asked what he thought about the Italian artist Michelangelo