absence Quotes

And oft the pangs of absence to remove<br /> By letters, soft interpreters of love.

'Tis said that absence conquers love;<br /> But oh! believe it not<br /> I've tried, alas! its power to prove,<br /> But thou art not forgot.

I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, <br />one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its <br />absence.

Condemned whole years in absence to deplore,<br /> And image charms he must behold no more.

In the hope to meet<br /> Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring,<br /> Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing,<br /> Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove,<br /> Say, is not absence death to those who love?

I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do <br />finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more <br />continuall remembrance of him.

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space<br /> Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience,<br /> That neither by hir wordes ne his face<br /> Biforn the fold, ne eek in her absence,<br /> Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Security is not the absence of danger, but the presence of God, no matter what the danger.

What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

Depression is a state where the only subtle thread that connects a person to life is the absence of a strong firm rope.

'T is said that absence conquers lo

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.