Children grasp the rules but not the reasons.
Children
Parents who boast of their child's developmental progress mistake a general miracle for a particular miracle.
The adult's unit of aging is the decade, the child's is the month. Humans age faster, the younger they are.
Love completes unhappy people, but uncompletes happy people, because love means we can no longer be happy alone.
Mr. Stanley’s Aphorisms and Paradoxes are outstanding examples of the long-form aphorism...
inevitably studded with discrete individual aphorisms that could easily stand on their own.
-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism
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