Second Marriage Quotes

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

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  "A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Book by Helen Rowland. Chapter: "Second Marriages", 1922.

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• Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Marriage, Couple

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• If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Succeed, Firsts, Failing

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Heartbreak, Differences

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.366, A&C Black

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• I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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

  George Will

  Marriage, Funny Love, Definitions

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• Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

  Jean Racine

  Fruit, Suspicion, Disagreeable

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 771-72, Phèdre, II. 5, 1922.

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• The triumph of hope over experience.

  Samuel Johnson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Hope

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 1770)

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

  Jim Backus

  Marriage, Humorous, Drinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Marriage

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• 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.

  Paul Auster

  Blessed, Luck, Feels

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• The instances that second marriage move
  Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Moving, Thrift

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Hamlet”, p.86, Palgrave Macmillan

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• 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.

  Omar Khayyam

  Daughter, Mother, House

  Omar Khayyam, “The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam”

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• 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.

  Laura Wasser

  Thinking, Feelings, Affair

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  War, Heart, Agreement

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• 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 .

  Guru Nanak

  Husband, Son, Widows

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• My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Alcohol

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• 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.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Scary, One Day

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• 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.

  Alice-Leone Moats

  Home, Simple, White

  Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• 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.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Marriage, Divorce, Thinking

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• 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.

  Henry Fielding

  Wedding, Men, Widows And Orphans

  Henry Fielding (1821). “The novels of Henry Fielding ... complete in one volume. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the life of the author [by sir W. Scott].”, p.601

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• 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.

  Barry Hannah

  Love, Drinking, Writing

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• 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.

  Linda Evans

  Independent, Careers, Alimony

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