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Absentee: A missing golfing peg - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty. - Pat Schweibert

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it. - Paulo Coelho

If I had nine of my fingers missing I wouldn't type any slower. - Mitch Hedberg

If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. - Cavett Robert

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments. - Steven Wright

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World. - George Best

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. - Elie Wiesel

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

Sometimes the hardest pieces of a puzzle to assemble, are the ones missing from the box. - Dixie Waters

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. - Flip Wilson

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife. - Ilie Nastase

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. - Kay Knudsen

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off. - Richard Schiff

The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand. - Alina Radoi

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop. - Mother Teresa

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins