Henry George Bohn Quotes

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

It's always nice to make friends; friends is good.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life.

Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

I surround myself with people who make me laugh.

I have some really great friends who encourage me.

I'm on backslapping terms with everyone from Sanjay Dutt to Sanjay Kapoor. That's why wives never feel threatened by my presence in their husband's lives. They know if I'm their husband's friend, I'm the wife's buddy as well.

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

Having a friend made everything else suck less.

Friendship multiplies blessings and...soothes the soul.

Love with its paraphernalia of sexuality, jealousy, nostalgia and exaltation was easier to reognize than friendship, which seemed to have (excepting athletic equipment) no paraphernalia at all.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.