The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Absent Quotes
Absence in love is like water on fire, a little quickens, but much extinguishes.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it?
Absence makes the heart grow wander.
Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.
Absentee, n.: A person with an income who has had the forethought to remove himself from the sphere of exaction.
