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1 " Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting. "
― Frank Delaney , The Matchmaker of Kenmare (A Novel of Ireland, #2)
2 " The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness. "
3 " Every pain is a lesson. "
4 " Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued. "
5 " 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. "
6 " Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier. "
7 " I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose--or some other organ. "
8 " It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth. "
9 " Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow. "
10 " 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. "