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It is safer to search in the maze than to remain in a cheeseless situation -- Spencer Johnson
Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. -- Honore de Balzac
Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools. -- Alexander Pope
Those who search for truth are too conscious of the maze to be hard on others. -- E. M. Forster
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze. -- Barbara Sher
To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Gautama Buddha
Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK. -- Tana French
The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior. -- Earl Warren
If certain women walk straight into adultery, there are many others who cling to numerous hopes, and commit sin only after wandering through a maze of sorrows. -- Honore de Balzac
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. -- Lord Chesterfield
Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze. -- Teri Garr
I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused. -- Kim Harrison
The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted. -- John Mortimer
When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another. -- Bruce Conner
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason. -- Octavio Paz
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Buddha
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols. -- John Maynard Keynes
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming. -- Daniel Keyes
How does silence find its way out of that noisy, chattering mind? That endless maze of thought, concept, opinion, belief? How does perfect silence and pure consciousness find its way out of that maze? Very simply: Bring yourself present with something that's HERE, in the moment. Then you'll be HERE again. -- Leonard Jacobson
The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler. -- Lord Chesterfield
Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us -- A.J. Cronin
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek. -- Ameen Rihani
And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles. -- Heinrich Heine
If you're going to decipher a hidden code from a complex set of different mazes, I'm pretty sure you need a girl's brain running the show. -- James Dashner

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