1.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower
2.
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
Cullen Hightower
3.
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
Cullen Hightower
4.
Strangers are what friends are made of.
Cullen Hightower
5.
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
Cullen Hightower
6.
Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
Cullen Hightower
7.
The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.
Cullen Hightower
8.
The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
Cullen Hightower
9.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
Cullen Hightower
10.
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
Cullen Hightower
11.
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
Cullen Hightower
12.
Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.
Cullen Hightower
13.
Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.
Cullen Hightower
14.
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
Cullen Hightower
15.
Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.
Cullen Hightower
16.
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
Cullen Hightower
17.
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
Cullen Hightower
18.
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
Cullen Hightower
19.
A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.
Cullen Hightower
20.
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower
21.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
Cullen Hightower
22.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
Cullen Hightower
23.
Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
Cullen Hightower
24.
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
25.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
Cullen Hightower
26.
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
Cullen Hightower
27.
Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.
Cullen Hightower
28.
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
Cullen Hightower
29.
It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.
Cullen Hightower
30.
Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
Cullen Hightower
31.
Money was invented
so we could know exactly how much we owe.
Cullen Hightower
32.
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
Cullen Hightower
33.
We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.
Cullen Hightower
34.
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?
Cullen Hightower
35.
Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.
Cullen Hightower
36.
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.
Cullen Hightower
37.
Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
Cullen Hightower
38.
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
Cullen Hightower
39.
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.
Cullen Hightower
40.
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
Cullen Hightower
41.
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
42.
We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.
Cullen Hightower
43.
Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.
Cullen Hightower
44.
Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.
Cullen Hightower
45.
Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.
Cullen Hightower
46.
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
Cullen Hightower
47.
The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.
Cullen Hightower
48.
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
49.
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
Cullen Hightower
50.
When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.
Cullen Hightower