Cullen Hightower Quotes
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
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 that you can reach what you know is there.
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
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.
Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
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.
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.
Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.
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.
Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.
Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.
Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.
If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.