Top 56 Quotes & Sayings by Cullen Hightower
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Cullen Hightower.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.
A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.
Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.
Strangers are what friends are made of.
Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.
When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.
Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.
Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
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.
The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.
If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy more of everything it advertises.
Money was invented
so we could know exactly how much we owe.
Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
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.
It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.
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.
We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.
Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?
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