Quotes About Riddle

THE NOTE said the first clue was in the big one. I looked at the jumble of letters that followed, and I saw no pattern. Not such a surprise, since I was missing the puzzle chromosome and couldn't do puzzles designed for nine-year-olds.

Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.

A little mathematical paradox that no tyrant has ever solved: I have three enemies. I have them all brutally and publicly executed. Now have many enemies have I got? The correct answer is usually in the region of 'seventy-nine'." –

Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.

What a dull place the world would be if all the mysteries in it were solved.

Greenburger

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"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."

Phrases of neatness, cosiness, and comfort can never be an answer to the sphinx's riddle.

What gets wetter the more it dries?

If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch?

AUTHOR'S NOTE Is the game really over? Maybe not. There is one more puzzle in the book that wasn't in the story. (Although a clue about how to find it was!) If you figure out the solution, let me know. Send an email to author@?Chris?Grabenstein.?com.

What occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, yet never in a thousand years?

Ah," said Jake. "Very tricky, Jenna. The answer, of course, is 'diner.' 'Fiend' is the word you would get if you took away one letter—'r' in this instance—but didn't rearrange the letters. 'Diner' fulfills both criteria specified in the question.

It occurred to me that I was suffering from the dizziness of contradictions: the only pleasure that remains once you've decided you know better than the world. Accepting contradictions means not believing any more in the primacy of "true feeling." Everything is true and simultaneously. It's why I hate Sam Shepard and all your True West stuff - it's like analysis, as if the riddle could be solved by digging up the buried child.

A Riddle There is one that has a head without an eye, And there's one that has an eye without a head. You may find the answer if you try; And when all is said, Half the answer hangs upon a thread.

I have always envied the Tibetans their simple faith, for all my life I have been a seeker. Though I learned, while in Asia, the way to meditate, the final answer to the riddle of life has not been vouchsafed to me. But I have at least learned to contemplate the events of life with tranquillity and not let myself be flung to and fro by circumstances in a sea of doubt.

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

Now comes the mystery.

Mankind loves misterys--a hole in the ground, excites mor wonder than a star in the heavens.

living riddle.

Mad Hatter: "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" "Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. "No, I give it up," Alice replied: "What's the answer?" "I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter

Thinking over this thought, this whole thinking makes no sense.

LE SPHINX - Vous avez réponse à tout. Hélas ! car vous l'avouerai-je, Å'dipe, j'ai une faiblesse : les faibles me plaisent et j'eusse aimé vous prendre en défaut.