Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
We can't choose our lives, but we can DECIDE what to do with the joys or griefs we're given.
The only way on earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
To solve the human equation, we need to add love, subtract hate, multiply good, and divide between truth and error.
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their joys, their sorrows and their griefs.
Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.
A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses
Multiply your death, divide by sex, add up your violence, what do you get?