Cullen Hightower Quotes
- Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.
- The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
- There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
- Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.
- Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
- The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
- One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
- When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
- A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
- Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
- Strangers are what friends are made of.
- The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions..
- Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
- There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
- We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.
- 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…
- Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
- Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
- Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
- Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.