Obviously, it's a great opportunity for somebody else to build a brand in their absence.

Now I go to the gym every opportunity I get. (I'm there so often), my dad tells me not to go to the gym.

The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.

'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.'

Judicious absence is a weapon.

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.