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Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat? -- Jim Carrey
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. -- Winston Churchill
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. -- Karl Kraus
I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip. -- Klaus Teuber
I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania. -- Bam Margera
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? -- Charles Lamb
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. -- Gregory Bateson
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? -- Sarah Jessica Parker
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. -- Gregory Bateson
I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges' youthful beginnings. -- J. K. Rowling
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems. -- Gregory Bateson
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind? -- Miguel de Cervantes
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! -- Alexander Pope
Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. -- Winston Churchill
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! -- Pope Francis
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. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle. -- Stephen Crane
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Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers. -- Truman Capote
You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone. -- Ben Okri
Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace...and care properly for this planet we all share. -- Bo Lozoff
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; 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. -- Alexander Pope
How to teach people to do what hasn't been done is a great riddle. -- Peter Thiel
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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. -- James Brolin
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China. -- Frank Carlucci
Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though it cannot be solved - is, in itself, transformative. And if the contemplation is of high enough quality, you can merge with the divine. -- Tom Robbins
Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. -- James Buchan
Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. -- Lewis Carroll
here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle. -- Mary Downing Hahn
What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was. -- Walter de La Mare
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation. -- Ernest Hemingway
Ballet is a riddle of means and ends. -- Gelsey Kirkland
Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. -- Joyce Carol Oates
The riddle of the age has for each a private solution. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve. -- Henry David Thoreau
Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up. -- W.S. Gilbert
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit. -- Ben Goldacre
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. -- D. H. Lawrence
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Understanding a metaphor is like deciphering a code or unraveling a riddle. -- Max Black
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. -- Alice Hoffman
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle -- Terence McKenna
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. -- Karl Marx
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle? -- George Eliot
Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle. -- Albert Einstein
We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying. -- Diane Keaton
Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist... -- Paul Watzlawick
Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. -- Winston Churchill
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. -- Winston S. Churchill
Here's a riddle: When is a croquet mallet like a billy club? I'll tell you: Whenever you want it to be! -- Cheshire Cat
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved. -- Heinrich Heine
Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed. -- Daniel Tosh
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. -- Washington Irving
But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get there. -- Stephanie Kallos
The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart. -- Steve Hamilton
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. -- Diane Arbus
WHEN A RESTLESS spirit is commissioned, under influence, to solve a riddle for another man, his energies are, at first, readily and faithfully applied. -- Eleanor Catton
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. -- Theodor Adorno
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. -- Charles Kettering
The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?] -- Carl Sagan
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. -- Thomas Harris
See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle. -- Stephen King
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle. -- Abraham Lincoln
The riddle of Mozart is precisely that "the man" refuses to be a key for solving it. In death, as in life, he conceals himself behind his work. -- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course. -- Jodi Picoult
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an Ã¦nigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject. -- David Hume
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. -- Ama Ata Aidoo
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? -- George R. R. Martin
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. -- John Denver
[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher. -- Will Cuppy
No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true. -- George MacDonald
I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thingin heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet. -- Todd Burpo
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. -- Meher Baba
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. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking -- Albert Einstein
Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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. -- Mikhail Naimy
Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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? -- Soren Kierkegaard
The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love. -- John Donne
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so -- Freeman Dyson

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