Quotes About Matchmakers

I just work hard and do what I've got to do and let my promoters and matchmakers handle that part. I basically tell them to get the guy that has the best record that wants to fight.

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Given what Aidan knew about Mick's sneaky intentions, he was quick to decline. Besides, just last night he'd determined to give Liz the space she claimed to want. He could hardly argue against it being the smart thing to do for both of them. The less fodder these matchmakers had to work with, the better off they'd both be. And with his own uncertainty about how long he'd stick around Chesapeake Shores, why start something he might not be around to finish?

The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious restrictions on acceptable ways to meet future spouses, are turning to external matchmakers for help.

Even Austen's famous first sentence has an echo in one of Burney's: "[It is] received wisdom among matchmakers, that a young lady without fortune has a less and less chance of getting off upon every public appearance."44

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

The disappointment of marriages can be improved by allowing astrologers to become matchmakers.