Americans are people who insist on living in the present, tense.

Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out
to have been a phenomenon, not a civilization.
		-- Shirley Hazzard, "Transit of Venus"

America's best buy for a quarter is a telephone call to the right person.

Amnesia used to be my favorite word, but then I forgot it.

AMOEBIT:
	Amoeba/rabbit cross; it can multiply
	and divide at the same time.

Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful as woman.
		-- St. John Chrysostom (304-407)

Among the lucky, you are the chosen one.

An acid is like a woman:  a good one will eat through your pants.
		-- Mel Gibson, Saturday Night Live

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talkin' about him, ain't listening.
		-- Marlon Brando

An Ada exception is when a routine gets
in trouble and says "Beam me up, Scotty."

An adequate bootstrap is a contradiction in terms.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because
people refuse to see it.
		-- James Michener, "Space"

An Aggie farmer was lifting his hogs, one by one, up to the branches of
his apple trees to graze on the apples.  A Texas student walked by and
asked him, "Doesn't that take a lot of time?"
	Replied the Aggie, "What's time to a hog?"

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
		-- Dylan Thomas

An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
		-- Donald E. Knuth

An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad
to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
		-- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)

An amendment to a motion may be amended, but an amendment to an amendment
to a motion may not be amended.  However, a substitute for an amendment to
and amendment to a motion may be adopted and the substitute may be amended.
		-- The Montana legislature's contribution to the English
		language.

An American is a man with two arms and four wheels.
		-- A Chinese child

An American scientist once visited the offices of the great Nobel prize
winning physicist, Niels Bohr, in Copenhagen.  He was amazed to find that
over Bohr's desk was a horseshoe, securely nailed to the wall, with the
open end up in the approved manner (so it would catch the good luck and not
let it spill out).  The American said with a nervous laugh,
	"Surely you don't believe the horseshoe will bring you good luck,
do you, Professor Bohr?  After all, as a scientist --"
Bohr chuckled.
	"I believe no such thing, my good friend.  Not at all.  I am
scarcely likely to believe in such foolish nonsense.  However, I am told
that a horseshoe will bring you good luck whether you believe in it or not."

An American tourist is visiting Russia, and he's talking with a Russian
about the fact that not many people in Russia own cars.

American:	"I can't believe you don't have cars here!  How do you
		get to work?"
Russian:	"We take the bus, or the subway.  We have public
		transportation everywhere."
A:		"Well, how do you go on vacations?"
R:		"We take the train."
A:		"Well, what if you want to go abroad?"
R:		"We don't ever want go abroad."
A:		"Well, what if you really HAVE to go abroad?"
R:		"We take tanks."