#absent

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#absent #blots #friends #out #people

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows. ↗

— Lucretius

#apply #blows #dungeon #executioner #goad

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #behind #dad #daughter #deserved

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

— Thomas a Kempis

#always #mind #out #sight #wrong

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

#embrace #knowledge #recognition #salutation #something

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent. ↗

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#committee #consist #men #should #three