Cullen Hightower

Strangers are what friends are made of.

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— 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

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

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

— Cullen Hightower

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— 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…

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— 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

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

If television encouraged us to work as much as it encourages us to do everything else, we could better afford to buy…

— Cullen Hightower