Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

The line juxtaposes two truths about time. On one hand, time can soften grief, anger, and trauma; distance and new experiences often make pain more bearable. On the other, time is indifferent to vanity: it brings wrinkles, wear, and decline, and no amount of patience reverses that. The humor comes from treating time as a service provider—excellent at “healing,” terrible at “beautifying”—which undercuts sentimental consolations with a blunt reminder of mortality. As a compact epigram, it functions both as comfort (emotional pain eases) and as comic realism (physical aging does not).

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