The certainty of having her as his wife prevented him from feeling any desire for her.
Wedding Quotes
Wikiquote has no wedding page of its own to draw on, so this one is a blend of the marriage, love and romance pages. Only one quote in the data is filed under weddings directly: Ambrose Bierce’s entry in The Devil’s Dictionary (1911), a definition of the ceremony as a joke about who ends up as nothing. It is funny and it is not for a toast.
For a reading or a speech, the love and romance material is the better bet. Shakespeare and Byron are both here. Look at the source line under each quote before you print it on anything.
As long as a love of liberty is emblazoned on our hearts, Jefferson lives.
Love does not compare, and so the envy and torture of "becoming" cease.
For naught is there more sweet unto an aged sire than a daughter's love.
In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.