<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Absence - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are always in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/181]]></link><description><![CDATA[No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A DEEP-SWORN VOWOthers because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are good that are away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/179]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are good that are away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--  Days of absence, I am weary;   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array,--  Days of absence, I am weary;   She I love is far away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/158]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!  What freezings have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/159]]></link><description><![CDATA[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!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/160]]></link><description><![CDATA[All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/162]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,   But thou art not forgot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide - your absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence, that common cure of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence, that common cure of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from whom we love is worse than death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; every little absence is an age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/173]]></link><description><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky,  I gaze upon each orb of light,   And wish that thou wert by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw;  There's little pleasure in the house  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/152]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there's nae luck about the house; There's nae luck at aw;  There's little pleasure in the house   When our gudeman's awa.   - William Julius Mickle,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again  Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,   And memory, like a drop that, night and day,    Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemned whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/136]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one pain I often feel, which you will never know. It is caused by the absence of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence - that common cure of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence - that common cure of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence makes the heart grow fonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;  Still to my brother turns, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee;  Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,   And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/141</guid></item></channel></rss>