Absent Quotes

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.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Judge, Gossip, Person

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

Present, Nor, Fault

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words, Generous, Kindly

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

Present, Quite, Seem

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Friends, Absence, Blots

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.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

Life, Beauty, Work

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

Ignorance, Present, Cause

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale

Change, Great, Attitude

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana

Knowledge, Mean, Cannot

Never find fault with the absent.
Alexander Pope

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

Knowledge, Embrace

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke

Love, Him, Thought

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Eyes, Gentleman, Present

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.
Hannah Arendt

Power, Violence, Left

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

Mind, Guilty, Though

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.
Cat Stevens

Music, Business, Working

What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.
Susan Orlean

Life, Funny, After

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
Michael Caine

Present, Nor, Fault

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.
John Calvin

Good, Evil, Reason

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

Life, Happiness, Depression

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
Henry James

Life, Become, American

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

Heart, May, Friends

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
Tacitus

Greater, Believed

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
Jacques Lacan

May, Him, However

Woman absent is woman dead.
Walter Bagehot

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

Mind, Wrong, Sight

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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Home, After, Read

Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
Sextus Propertius

Lovers, Among, Ardor

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

Mother, Father, Often

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