Cullen Hightower Famous Quotes
There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists.
People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
Our ego is our silent partner--too often with a controlling interest.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
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."
Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."
Cullen Hightower Quotations
"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people they're just acquaintances."
Jay Leno
"History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it."
Carl Sandburg
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Naomi Friedan
"The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs."
JeanneMarie Roland
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
Richard Milhous Nixon
I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts financial worries. - Journals
Jules Renard
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo
"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks."
John Donne
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story.
Walter Cronkite