Cullen Hightower Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Government #Political #Liberty

“Strangers are what friends are made of.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Stranger #Made

“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Funny #Mistake #Laughing

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

#Running #Loss #Body

“Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Inspirational #Discipline #Chaos

“We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Worry #Panic #Moments

“Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Ego #Silent #Partners

“People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Inspirational #People #Done

“Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Business #May #Admire

“The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions..”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Exercise #Jumping #Mind

“When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Ambition #Performances

“A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Block #Stones #Stumbling

“Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Moving Forward #Thinking #Worry

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

#Life #Imagination #Political

“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.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Money #Flirting #Fling

“Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Poverty #Wealth #Rich

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

#Democracy #Lawyer #Enough

“Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Anger

“We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Money #Littles #Profit

“Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Treason

“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.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Appreciated

“Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Friendly

“In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Work #Nobility

“Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Younger Generation

“Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Values

“Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Inspirational #Life #Faith

“The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Mistake #Trying #Next

“There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Issues #People #Controversial

“Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#America #Political #Showcase

“The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.”
-- Cullen Hightower

#Life #Fleeting #Green