Freebsd Fortunes 2

abscond, v:
        To be unexpectedly called away to the bedside of a dying relative
        and miss the return train.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases
great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
                -- La Rochefoucauld

Absence in love is like water upon fire;
a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
                -- Hannah More

Absence is to love what wind is to fire.  It extinguishes the small,
it enkindles the great.

Absence makes the heart forget.

Absence makes the heart go wander.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
                -- Sextus Aurelius

Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- of somebody else.

Absence makes the heart grow frantic.

ABSENT:
        Exposed to the attacks of friends and
        acquaintances; defamed; slandered.