Cullen Hightower Quotations

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

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

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.

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

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.

It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.

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.

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.

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.

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

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

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

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

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

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

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

Strangers are what friends are made of.

Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there