Absent / Absence Quotes

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

Charles Reade

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

Benjamin Franklin

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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Never find fault with the absent.

Alexander Pope

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Tacitus

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

Thomas a Kempis

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The loudest voice in the room, sometimes, is the absent voice of the silenced.

Andy Dunn

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At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that’s better than an absent one is a dead one.

George S. Kaufman

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My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

Greta Scacchi

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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence.    

Isaac Newton

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