Josiah Gilbert Holland Quotes

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.

Any good thing that happens to someone you love can only be good for you too.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

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

Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

Success is best when it's shared.

Everytime you smile, I smile And everytime you shine, I'll shine for you.

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who all are happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

I think the things that make me excited are only best when they're shared with people.

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.

If you have a happy friend, your happiness goes up fifteen times.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

Life is better when you share it.

Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.

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

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

While I am sane I shall compare nothing to the joy of a friend.