Cullen Hightower famous quotes

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Government #Political #Liberty

Strangers are what friends are made of.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Stranger #Made

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Funny #Mistake #Laughing

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Running #Loss #Body

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Inspirational #Discipline #Chaos

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Worry #Panic #Moments

Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Ego #Silent #Partners

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Inspirational #People #Done

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Business #May #Admire

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions..
-- Cullen Hightower

#Exercise #Jumping #Mind

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Ambition #Performances

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Block #Stones #Stumbling

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Moving Forward #Thinking #Worry

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Life #Imagination #Political

Money can be fickle, having a lasting relationship with a few and a brief fling with others, while just flirting with the rest of us.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Money #Flirting #Fling

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Poverty #Wealth #Rich

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Democracy #Lawyer #Enough

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Anger

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Money #Littles #Profit

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Treason

A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Appreciated

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Friendly

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Work #Nobility

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Younger Generation

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Values

Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Inspirational #Life #Faith

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Mistake #Trying #Next

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Issues #People #Controversial

Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.
-- Cullen Hightower

#America #Political #Showcase

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Life #Fleeting #Green

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Kindness #Civilization #Differences

A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Integrity #Mind #Handle

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Ideas #Skepticism #Suspicion

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Success #Benefits

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Thinking #Giving #Range

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Littles #Too Much

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Information #Messages #Sometimes

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Running #Wisdom #Opinion

A good education prepares a child to be a good employee and a good citizen-in that order, with the importance of the former never exceeding the importance of the latter.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Children #Order #Citizens

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
-- Cullen Hightower

#Easy #Term

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Would Be #Generations #Argument

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Government #Doors #Car

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.
-- Cullen Hightower

#Feet #Support #Good Enough