Browsing Topic Best Second Marriage Quotes

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.

I’ve been very lucky in this second marriage. It’s just luck. It’s absolute luck. And I can only marvel at it. So many other things could have happened that didn’t, so overall I feel blessed.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I’m glad I was disabused.

For a second marriage a lady has to content herself with a quiet ceremony in a chapel or at home, if she doesn’t want to be married by a magistrate. Having, it is to be hoped, lost her right to white satin she wears a simple afternoon frock and hat.

On second marriage: It took me by surprise, too, because overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it’s scary but I think it can happen when you get involved and you don’t know yourself yet.

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .

As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.

To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have turned to sociology. Through statistics as carefully laid out as a bridal train, they are establishing a correlation showing a higher divorce rate for the informally gowned…. They may just have something there…. If a bride has sunk a bunk of savings into a dress she can’t use again in a second wedding, she might think twice about having a second.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

My personal feelings on marriage? Samuel Johnson once said that second marriages – although I could probably say this about any marriage – are about the triumph of hope over experience. I think that’s true. I don’t know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the aspect of marriage that is troubling is that it’s a contract that is governed by the state, and I don’t want the state to have control over my personal affairs.

You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.