Top 54 Cullen Hightower Quotes
#1. After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.
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#2. Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
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#3. Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.
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#4. Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
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#5. Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance
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#6. Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
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#7. A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.
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#8. We all like to see everybody make a profit ... a very little.
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#9. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
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#10. A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.
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#11. There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
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#12. Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.
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#13. One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.
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#14. Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
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#15. Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.
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#16. There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
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#17. If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.
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#18. We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
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#19. The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.
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#20. Our ego is our silent partner ... too often with a controlling interest.
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#21. In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.
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#22. A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
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#23. When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.
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#24. A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
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#26. The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions..
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#27. Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.
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#28. Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.
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#29. Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.
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#30. Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
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#31. 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.
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#33. Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.
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#34. The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.
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#35. The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.
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#36. Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
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#37. Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.
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#38. The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?
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#40. When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Money was invented
so we could know exactly how much we owe.
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#43. 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.
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#44. Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.
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#45. Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.
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#46. Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
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#47. People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
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#48. Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.
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#49. The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
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#50. 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.
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#51. We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.
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#52. We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
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#53. The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.
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#54. The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
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