Absent Quotes

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

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.

Greater things are believed of those who are 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.