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The Matchmaker of Kenmare

Frank Delaney

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Every pain is a lesson.”

“Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.”

“Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.”

“The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.”

“Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.”

“Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.”

“It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.”

“I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose--or some other organ.”

“Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.”

“There's a legend...that says all couples who are meant to marry are connected by an invisible silver cord. The matchmaking gods tie that cord around their ankles at birth, and in time the gods pull those cords tighter and tighter. Slowly, slowly, over the next twenty or thirty or forty years, they draw the couple toward each other until they meet.”

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