Riddle Quotations

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

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.

I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

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.

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.

Riddle me this, Batman. Look at what was said on the news, and look at what's going to come out in the trial, anyway - and then some. So where's the prejudice to these two individuals? It's not there.

Riddle of destiny, who can show / What thy short visit meant, or know / What thy errand here below?

We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

Here's a riddle for Our Age: when the sky's the limit, how can you tell you've gone too far?

Who knows, in 100,000 years the emerging Grand Nebula in Cassiopeia may replace the fading Orion Nebula as a favorite object for amateur astronomers. In the meantime, I think it will be a favorite target for professional astronomers trying to solve the riddle of massive star formation.

Whether it be a Ryan Riddle or a Kirk Morrison or Fabian (Washington) or a Stanford Routt on defense, those guys, we're going to need them.

Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

We also want to give these students some opportunities for fun such as opening Riddle Elementary gymnasium and letting them play basketball or allowing them access to the school's library. We also want to make ourselves available to help them out.

Dial and Patterson both hit well. Riddle drove in runs. We kept fighting and battling. Before the year is over, I still think we are going to have a decent club. I am seeing some bright spots and seeing things we are doing better even though we didn't win.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.

Now I am off the board I can assure you Philip Riddle and VisitScotland will not have an easy ride.

People riddle their resumes with useless pieces of information. They don't tell you how the movie was made or show all the boring scenes, they give you the highlights.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

This game went in phases for us. We got off to a great start, and North Dakota got back into it. We didn't respond like we needed to. We didn't handle the riddle of having a team come back on us.

I just think they didn't handle the riddle of having a team come back on them.

By the third day of eating all raw, I found I had solved the riddle to my health.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannotbe expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can beput at all, then it can also be answered.

We solved the riddle by finding this really ancient element conserved throughout evolution that acts as a sensing mechanism and tells these fungi when they've changed their environment.

ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she'll be no royal riddle -- Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. --G.J.

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

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.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

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.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist...

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

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

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.