Absence Quotes
No.	Quotation	Last Name	First Name
1	Woman absent is woman dead.	Bierce	Ambrose
2	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	Brendan
3	It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us; a year impairs; a lustre obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory. Then, indeed, the lights are rekindled for a moment. . . . Let any man try at the end of ten years to bring before him the features, or the mind, or the sayings, or the habits, of his best friend.	Byron	Lord
4	Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.	Byron	Lord
5	Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars - all the beauties of creation.	Hugo	Victor
6	When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.	Kempis	Thomas
7	No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.	La Bruyere
8	Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.	La Rochefoucauld	Francois
9	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!	Shakespeare	William
10	Absence is a shrew.	English Proverb

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