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| #8971 |   | Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once.
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| #8972 |   | After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box. 		-- Italian proverb
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| #8973 |   | Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.
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| #8974 |   | Age before beauty; and pearls before swine. 		-- Dorothy Parker
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| #8975 |   | Aim for the moon.  If you miss, you may hit a star. 		-- W. Clement Stone
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| #8976 |   | Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing. 		-- The Mad Dogtender
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| #8977 |   | Alas, I am dying beyond my means. 		-- Oscar Wilde [as he sipped champagne on his deathbed]
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| #8978 |   | Alimony is the high cost of leaving.
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| #8979 |   | All a man needs out of life is a place to sit 'n' spit in the fire.
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| #8980 |   | All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
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