Riddle Quotes

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Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be!

If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.

If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle.

Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.

Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?