Absent Quotes

Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong.

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

If there's no relationship with a father who's absent, nobody talks about it.

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

Woman absent is woman dead.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

It is made the duty of every Commanding Officer in the Department, to arrest and send to these Headquarters, under guard, every officer or soldier who may be found absent from his command, without the regular leave in writing, prescribed by Regulations and General Orders.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

I've got a golf scholarship for school, so they understand if I'm away. A couple of years ago they called to see why I wasn't at school, and now they're like, 'oh, she's at golf.' Sometimes I'm in class and sometimes the teachers don't realize I'm there. She goes, 'oh, Lydia's absent.' And I'm like 'no, actually, I'm here.'

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.