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Love

For a happy marriage, the only counseling couples need is an occasional fear that each other has died.
The ugly feet of a beautiful woman are made desirable by the body they are attached to.
The glue of a happy marriage is shared time.
A conundrum of lovers is who will die first. Happy are the honeymooners whose car careens from the cliff, smashing their atoms into everlasting union.
Beauty is more alluring with a blemish.

open quote 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. close quote

-James Geary, author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism