The triumph of hope over experience
What's the meaning of the phrase 'The triumph of hope over experience'?
A literal view of the subject of remarriage.
What's the origin of the phrase 'The triumph of hope over experience'?
This remark is reported to have been said by Samuel Johnson in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791. The occasion was Johnson's hearing of a man who had remarried soon after the death of a wife to whom he had been unhappily married.