Quotes About Riddle

And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore

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

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

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."

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

Is that a riddle? Or a serious question?' 'Yes.' The Fool was grave.

I found my voice. 'I'm going to—' Riddle crossed his arms on his chest. His nostrils flared and he exclaimed defiantly, 'I don't care what you do. Understand that. Do whatever you wish, but it won't change anything.' '—be a grandfather.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, Raymond Chandler. Pretty much any detective on the job loves a good puzzle.

key question that remained unanswered. Who was

Mugworm Griblick

Because, what? You won't tell? Never! Well, I have a bad trick

She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it?

This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That's the riddle. That's the truth.

Alice: Why is a raven like a writing desk? Hatter: I haven't the faintest idea.

What matters our creative endless toil, When at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil? 'It is by-gone' - How shall the riddle run? As good as if things never had begun, Yet circle back, existence to possess: I'd rather have eternal Emptiness.

Life is a mysterious business.

Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness.

What manner of man is this?

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Anonymous: Early Miscellaneous

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

As I was going to St. Ives,I met a man with seven wives,Each wife had seven sacks,Each sack had seven cats,Each cat had seven kits:Kits, cats, sacks, and wives,How many were there going to St. Ives?