55 Quotations with Absent.
- 1. Cicero: The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when ...
- 2. Ambrose Bierce: ACEPHALOUS, adj. In the surprising condition of the Crusader who absently pulled ...
- 3. Ambrose Bierce: GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disp ...
- 4. Ambrose Bierce: LOOKING-GLASS, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man ...
- 5. Ambrose Bierce: PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of ...
- 6. Ambrose Bierce: TRIAL, n. A formal inquiry designed to prove and put upon record the blameless c ...
- 7. Sextus Propertius: Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
- 8. Ovid: Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
- 9. Benjamin Franklin: The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
- 10. George Santayna: Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace ...
- 11. Allphonse de Lamartine: Sometimes, when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated
- 12. Bible: Absent in body, but present in spirit.
- 13. Unknown: To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two ...
- 14. Goethe: The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite ...
- 15. Germaine Greer: All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapego ...
- 16. W. H. Auden: A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some go ...
- 17. Earl Nightingale: A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems ...
- 18. Elizabeth Bowen: Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- 19. Homer: Achilles absent was Achilles still!
- 20. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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