Top quotes by Cullen Hightower

Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues. Votes: 21

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it. Votes: 19

A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. Votes: 13

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists. Votes: 12

The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success. Votes: 11

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it. Votes: 11

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest. Votes: 9

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them. Votes: 9

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. Votes: 8

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American? Votes: 8

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.. Votes: 8

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know. Votes: 8

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos. Votes: 7

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can. Votes: 5

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. Votes: 5

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy. Votes: 4

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. Votes: 3

Strangers are what friends are made of. Votes: 3

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it. Votes: 3

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. Votes: 3

Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting. Votes: 0

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. Votes: 0

Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it. Votes: 0

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success. Votes: 0

Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance Votes: 0

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth. Votes: 0

If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it. Votes: 0

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own. Votes: 0

It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns. Votes: 0

Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity. Votes: 0

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends. Votes: 0

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message. Votes: 0

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else. Votes: 0

Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there. Votes: 0

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe. Votes: 0

Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated. Votes: 0

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know. Votes: 0

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. Votes: 0

A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle. Votes: 0

One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do. Votes: 0

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket. Votes: 0

Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little. Votes: 0

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it. Votes: 0

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers. Votes: 0

Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance. Votes: 0

In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other. Votes: 0

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't. Votes: 0

Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody. Votes: 0

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to. Votes: 0