Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Seneca the Younger

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• Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Better
  • Laughter

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Person
  • Laughter
  • Reward

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Sun
  • Winter
  • Laughter

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• The highest state is laughter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Laughter
  • State
  • Highest

• I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Laughter

• I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Day

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • America
  • Night

• On my graduation there was a party by the junior students, and I was given a hair brush as a gift - if I take off my hat, you know what I mean.(laughter)

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Party
  • Hair
  • Laughter

• Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Laughter

• Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• Life after all is made up of eating and sleeping, of meeting and saying good-by to friends, of reunions and farewell parties, of tears and laughter, of having a haircut once in two weeks, of watering a potted flower and watching one’s neighbor fall off his roof.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Horse
  • Sorry
  • Laughter

• A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

  

  Kitty Kelley
  • Hero
  • Apology

• Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

  

  Francis Parker Yockey
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Period

• As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

  

  Protagoras
  • Life

• All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Laughter
  • Weeping