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