Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
BAYLY Thomas Haynes 1797-1839
Isle of Beauty
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!
Behan Brendan 1923-1964
The Hostage
When I came back to Dublin, I was court - martialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Bussy-Rabutin Comte de 1618-1693
Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour
Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great.
Carman Bliss 1861-1929
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
Hazlitt William 1778-1830
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
Johnson Samuel 1709-1784
The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
La Rechefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire.
Ouida 1839-1908
The longest absence is less perilous to love than
the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Punch 1841-1992
What is better than presence of mind in a railway accident? Absence of body.
Ramson John Crowe 1888-1974
‘Winter Remembered'
Two evils, monstrous either one apart,
Possessed me, and were long and loath at going:
A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart,
And in the wood the furious winter blowing.
Rowe Nicholas 1674-1718
The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence;
Else who could bear it?
Russell Lord John 1792-1878
Among the defects of the Bill, which were numerous, one provision was conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Merchant of Venice
There is not one among them but I dote on his very ansence.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Sonnet 97
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!
Stark Freya 1893-1993
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
Stevenson Robert Louis 1850-1894
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
Aquinas St. Thomas 1225-1274
Summa Theologicae
If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent
from the universe.
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle) 1873-1954
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After
death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
Destouches Philippe Néricault 1680-1754
L'Obstacle imprévu
The absent are always in the wrong.
Homer fl.8th Century BC
Achilles absent, was Achilles still.
Lovelace Richard 1618-1658
„To Lucasta,Going Beyond the Seas"
If to be absent were to be
Away from thee;
Or that when I am gone,
You or I were alone;
Then my Lucasta might I crave
Pity from blust'ring wind,or swallowing wave.
Proverbs and Sayings
English
The absent are always wrong.
Tacitus AD c.56-c.117
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.