You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone

This and other quotes from Gabriel Robin's interesting quote collection at this URL.

Me too.
Caryl Chessman
(on the night of his execution, when his wife told him "Caryl, if they kill you I'll die!"). This is surely one of the shortest quotations ever.

An operating system is much like a girl: its appeal depends much on its availability.
Robert X. Cringely

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote. Especially in his case.

What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is the man who choses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.
The Prison Chaplain in Anthony Burgess' "A clockwork orange", suggested by Jim Thompson

I wouldn't piss in his mouth if his heart was on fire.
James Carville, President Clinton's Campaign Adviser about somebody whom apparently he didn't like.

I am just a drunk.
My translation from an article in a Japanese newspaper. Eric Clapton enjoys an undeserved godlike status as a musician, but I can't hate him for that because, if he is a bad musician, he is a very good, simple and humble man even after three decades of universal adulation. I saw a documentary about him and he mentioned for example the fact he is proud that his grandfather was an excellent bricklayer.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke

Everything you can control, you must control.
Synthesizer co-creator Walter (now Wendy) Carlos. In normal life this statement makes little sense, but I think it is absolutely fundamental to those who make use of machines.

Children are born to be happy.
Fidel Castro

A sheep in a sheep's clothing.

A modest man with much to be modest about.
Both by Winston Churchill about Clement Attlee

By Jove, you're right! It is as smooth as your wife's behind!
Winston Churchill, when told by a political adversary "The top of your head is as smooth as my wife's behind".

I am ready to meet my maker, but I am not sure that my maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me.
Winston Churchill

I never saw anything ugly in my life, for no matter how repulsive an object, light and reflection immediately turn it into a thing of beauty.
Painter John Constable