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Quotes About Riddle

Max looks up from his book and says, "Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?" "I don't know, Max." "A postage stamp.
~ Anthony Doerr
Mutti, what goes around the world but stays in a corner?" "I don't know, Max." "A postage stamp.
~ Anthony Doerr
As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
~ Gary Player
Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder? Nobody spoke so he said it all the louder It's a dirty Irish trick and I can lick the Mick Who threw the overalls in Murphy's chowder.
~ Frank McCourt
mystery to solve.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
You never hear a country-western station saying 'We have old school artist Willie Nelson in the house.' They say 'We have the legendary Willie Nelson.'
~ Big Daddy Kane
What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?
~ Thomas Malory
It was like he'd been mildly puzzled to death.
~ Louise Erdrich
The temporal immortality of the soul of man, that is to say, its eternal survival also after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive forever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Fewmets to Mr. Jenkins, anyhow.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Every line is pregnant with meaning and however much the meaning is ransacked, the riddle will remain because only you can explain it, and this riddle is your last triumph—you will never reveal it.
~ Anais Nin
What demands an answer but asks no question? A A telephone.
~ Andy Griffiths
paperchase. And it is on a deduction drawn from
~ John Dickson Carr
The Phoenix riddle hath more witBy us, we two being one, are it.So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,We die and rise the same, and proveMysterious by this love.
~ John Donne
Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.
~ Agatha Christie
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
~ Edward Flaherty
Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.
~ Edward Hoagland
Who, or why, or which, or what,Is the Akond of Swat?
~ Edward Lear
It is quite a three-pipe problem.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
The world is packed with mistery. We tend to forget this, but it?s still packed tight with it, like water in stone.
~ Rose Tremain
More powerful than God, more evil than the Devil; the poor have it, the rich lack it, and if you eat it you die?
~ Margaret Atwood
What goes click ninety-nine times and clack once? A centipede with a clubfoot.
~ Anne Frank
Why! he always thought to himself. What was that little redhead doing by the side of
~ Anne Tyler
me if you knew something, but you couldn't
~ Sheldon Siegel