Omar Torrijos Herrera's Quotes

He who gives love, receives love.

I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

Regarding the Panama Canal Treaty negotiations, they will find us standing up or dead, but never on our knees; NEVER!

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.

Tears are the noble language of the eye.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.