Al Murray Quotes

Timing the market is a fools game, whereas time in the market is your greatest natural advantage.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

The limited liability corporation is the greatest single invention of modern times.

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

Joy is increased by spreading it to others.

Wealth is not determined by investment performance, but by investor behavior.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

Anything happens in Grand Prix racing, and it usually does.

Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Do not fear the face of man. Remember how small their anger will appear in eternity.

Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.

It is the mark of a hypocrite to be a Christian everywhere except at home.

You are bigger than your circumstances.

The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.

My favorite thing about New York is the people, because I think they’re misunderstood. I don’t think people realize how kind New York people are.

Jenson Button is in the top ten, in eleventh position.

Monetary inflation not only raises prices and destroys the value of the currency unit; it also acts as a giant system of expropriation.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.

The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Religion is 'twixt God and my own soul, Nor saint, nor sage, can boundless thought control.

And the first three cars are all Escorts, which isn't surprising as this is an all Escort race.

As natural and easy as it has been to be proud, it must become natural for us to be humble.

We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

With two laps to go then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is.

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

... religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches.

The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

You hate me because I am the embodiment of all your doubts.

I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

In the long run, not doing what's necessary to do the thing you're afraid will hurt you, hurts infinitely worse than doing it.

The nearer you take anything to the light, the darker its spots will appear; and the nearer you live to God, the more you will see your own utter vileness.

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

One point of view gives a one dimensional world.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

I know well that when Christ is nearest, Satan also is busiest.

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

Niels Bohr brainwashed a whole generation of theorists into thinking that the job (interpreting quantum theory) was done 50 years ago.

Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.

The necessary consequence of an egalitarian program is the decidedly inegalitarian creation of a ruthless power elite.

Monetary expansion is a massive scheme of hidden redistribution.