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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1167 |
| AUTHOR: | Samuel Johnson (1709–84) |
| QUOTATION: | A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | SAMUEL JOHNSON.—James Boswell, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. George B. Hill, rev. and enl. ed., ed. L. F. Powell, entry for 1770, vol. 2, p. 128 (1934). |
| SUBJECTS: | Marriage |
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