| "When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." »Brendan Behan |
| "I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." »Brendan Francis Behan |
| "Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer." »Alexander Pope |
| "I dote on his very absence." »William Shakespeare |
| "absence of proof is not proof of absence." »Michael Crichton |
| "The absence of war is not peace." »Harry S Truman |
| "Health is not simply the absence of sickness." »Hannah Green |
| "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously." »Henry Kissinger |
| "Our hours in love have wings in absence, crutches." »Colley Cibber |
| "absence makes the heart grow fonder." »Thomas Haynes Bayly |
| "absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away." »James Thomson |
| "What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain." »Cicero |
| "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." »Dorothy L. Sayers |
| "Total absence of humor renders life impossible." »Colette |
| "Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life." »Jean Paul Richter |
| "Accident, n. A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better." »Unknown |
| "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." »Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| "absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great." »Comte DeBussy-Rabutin |
| "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones." »Bertrand Russell |
| "In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia." »Unknown |
| "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." »Baruch Spinoza |
| "If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless." »Henry Kissinger |
| "absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere" »William Shakespeare |
| "absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one- as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame. (Maxims)" »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks under water at the same time." »Mark Twain |
| "Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society." »B. J. Gupta |
| "Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good." »Swami Vivekananda |
| "One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe)" »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
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