Cullen Hightower
Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.Collection: Government
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.Collection: Famous
The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.Collection: Government
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.Collection: Imagination
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.Collection: Funny
Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.Collection: Inspirational
Strangers are what friends are made of.Collection: Stranger
The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.Collection: Exercise
We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.Collection: Information
After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.Collection: Journey
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.Collection: Success
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.Collection: Worry
Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.Collection: Generations
Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.Collection: Business
The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.Collection: Running
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.Collection: Issues
It's hard to see a halo when you're looking for horns.Collection: Halos
If we fixed a hangnail the way our government fixes the economy, we'd slam a car door on it.Collection: Government
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.Collection: Knowledge
There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.Collection: Littles
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.Collection: Moving Forward
Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advanceCollection: Easy
Of all creatures on earth, we humans have the highest level of stupidity.Collection: Stupidity
Our freedom to discipline ourselves is a freedom we can lose if we don't use it.Collection: Discipline
Our ego is our silent partner...too often with a controlling interest.Collection: Ego
The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.Collection: Pleasure
Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.Collection: Poverty
When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Wages
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.Collection: Block
Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.Collection: Democracy
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.Collection: Would Be
Getting even with somebody is no way to get ahead of anybody.Collection: Anger
Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.Collection: Best Marriage
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.Collection: Running
A mind becomes a detriment when it acquires more intelligence than its integrity can handle.Collection: Integrity
The wheel was invented so we could move faster. Credit was invented so we would have to.Collection: Moving
In our nation there are two classes of nobility: the law-abiding workers and the law-abiding employers who sustain each other.Collection: Work
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.Collection: Children
The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.Collection: Life
Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.Collection: Law
A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion - unless you are victim of it.Collection: Imagination
One difference between savagery and civilization is a little courtesy. There's no telling what a lot of courtesy would do.Collection: Kindness
Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Money
When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.Collection: Feet
Every U.S. citizen owes allegiance to our nation. Some Americans consider that anything less than high treason is allegiance.Collection: America
Every adult should be an expert on teenagers, after spending life's seven longest years being one.Collection: Teenager
The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.Collection: Ideas