Khyron's Less Than Familiar Quotations Backwards Edition Part 1 Endings and Z -- W

My preferred nom de internet is Khyron.

I have been compiling a quotation dictionary on my own forum:

http://khyron1144.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=spam&action=display&thread=55

If you've read it before, I am almost certain there are updates here.  For the sake of novelty, I am presenting this material sort of backwards to the way it appears on the original thread.

I have not yet thought of an adequate textual method to convey the drawn out "sh" sound in the Benny Bell quote.

Endings
If you have something of importance to say, for God's Sake start at the end.
-Sarah Jeanette Duncan

Give me a good ending any time. You know where you are with an ending.
-Atropos, The Sandman The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman

And now my story is ended.
I think it is time I should quit.
If any of you feel offended,
Stick your head in a barrel
Of sh...aving cream.
-Benny Bell, "Shaving Cream"

In the end, everything is a gag.
-Charlie Chaplin

In the end, only kindness matters.
-Jewel, "Hands"

Z
Zen
Wally: I take the Zen approach of having no friends and doing no work. Hence, perfect balance.
Dilbert: Where did you get that definition of Zen?
Wally: I used to read, but it's faster to make up stuff.
-A Dilbert comic strip by Scott Adams rerpinted in the collection titled Thriving On Vague Objectives

Zoos
Did you know that the zoo can ban you for life if they catch you using a hibachi?
-Pointy-haired Boss, Random Acts of Management a Dilbert collection by Scott Adams

Y
Yaks
Our yaks are really large
And they smell like rotting beef carcasses...
And we have to clean up after them.
"Kilted Yaksmen Anthem" from the album Ren & Stimpy You Eediot, lyrics by John Kricfalusi & Bob Camp, music by Charlie Brissette, sung by Billy West, Bob Camp, Charlie Brissette, and members of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles

X
Xenophobia
The metric system is the tool of the devil!
-Abraham J Simpson, The Simpsons

W
Weasels
Dilbert: I used to think I might like some people I hadn't met. But now I think they're weasels too.
Dogbert: How about a wide-eyed and innocent child who loves you unconditionally?
Dilbert: Tiny weasels.
- A Dilbert comic strip by Scott Adams reprinted in the collection, Words You Don't Want To Hear during Your Annual Performance Review

People are weasels.
-Scott Adams, Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel

Witchcraft, Witches, Witching, etc
A witch never has matching crockery.
-Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

You were there, you had the hat, you did the job. That was a basic rule of witchery: It’s up to you.
-Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Young women should not go alone on dark nights, even in Oxfordshire. But any prowling maniac would have had more than his work cut out if he had accosted Anathema Device. She was a witch, after all. And precisley because she was a witch, and therefore sensible, she put little faith in protective amulets ands spells; she saved it all for a foot-long bread knife which she kept in her belt.
-Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Good Omens

Women, Females, Girls, Ladies
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
-Groucho Marx

Words
When ideas fail, words come in handy.
-Goethe

I think we've outgrown the word gripe. When everyone has automatic weapons, a word like gripe is sort of irrelevant.
-George Carlin, Brain Droppings

There should be some things we don't name, just so we can sit around all day and wonder what they are.
-George Carlin, Brain Droppings

Work
Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
-Buddha

Working-class people “look for work.” Middle-class people “try to get a job.” Upper-middle-class people “seek employment.”
-George Carlin, Brain Droppings

We’re all amateurs; it’s just that some of us are more professional about it than others.
-George Carlin, Brain Droppings

And it all meant this: that there are hardly an excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot be easily duplicated by a normal, kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.
-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

I'd rather staple a skunk to my forehead and go to a tradeshow for banjo makers. And yet, it's still better than working, so count me in.
-Carol, the secretary, in a Dilbert comic strip by Scott Adams reprinted in the collection, When Body Language Goes Bad

Always be smearter than the people who hire you.
-Lena Horne

The World
The world is a madhouse, so it's only right that it is patrolled by armed idiots.
-Brendan Behan

The world is our school for spiritual discovery.
-Paul Brunton

We’re a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.
-Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

You have the vanity to believe you live in two worlds, but that is only your vanity. There is but one single world for us. We are men, and must follow the world of men contentedly.
-Don Juan, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castenada

He's got the whole world in his hands.
-Traditional, "He's Got The Whole World in His Hands"

He's got the whole world in his pants.
-Mondegren of above lyric in He's Got The Whole World in His Pants And More Misheard Lyrics by Gavin Edwards