By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.
Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way.
When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.
A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
I could be such a wonderful wife to another wife's husband.
Women are really beautiful in their forties, and men seem to come of age around the period of their second wife.
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