Cullen Hightower

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

— 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

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

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Cullen Hightower

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation 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

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

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

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