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Lithuanian nation must be saved, as it is the key to all the riddles - not only philology, but also in history - to solve the puzzle. — Immanuel Kant

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles — Mark Twain

All of life's riddles are answered in the movies. — Steve Martin

What Profiteth It A Kingdom If The Oxen Be Deflated?' - Riddles II, v3 — Terry Pratchett

Pain helps the body grow.
Riddles help the mind grow.
Loss helps the heart grow.
Temptations help the soul grow. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters. — J.R.R. Tolkien

To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. — Publilius Syrus

Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words. — Sophocles

Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved. — George Arthur Buttrick

Absurdly simple, like most riddles when you see the answer. — J.R.R. Tolkien

As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets. — Bonnie Bassler

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head — Damon Knight

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes. — Rodger Kamenetz

All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. — Patricia A. McKillip

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martin — Steve Martin

Too many riddles weigh men down on earth. We must solve as we can, and try to keep a dry skin in the water. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Who had jolted Sophie out of her everyday existence and suddenly brought her face to face with the great riddles of the universe? — Jostein Gaarder

People act like riddles are hard, but real life is harder. In real life, there are always more than two doors -Sherm — Rebecca Stead

I'm allergic to dogma. I thrive on riddles. Any idea I believe, I reserve the right to disbelieve as well. — Rob Brezsny

I like the old wisdom
puns, riddles, spells, proverbs. — Mason Cooley

It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind. — Stephen King

Richard clenched the strip in his fist. It's some kind of riddle. I hate riddles. — Terry Goodkind

You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined? — David Mutti Clark

Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries. — Frederick Lenz

You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive. — Sarah McLachlan

The only thing worse than a voice inside your head is a voice inside your head that only speaks in riddles. — Pierdomenico Baccalario

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles. — Dan Jenkins

That's good. Life is full of riddles that only the dead can answer," was Dad's reply. — Ben Okri

The glass is three fifths full of gas. — Brian Spellman

A circle has no end. — Isaac Asimov

Humans, when you talk me about them... I more likely see them as a unsolveable unlogicalable problem... than something else. — Deyth Banger

Why do men so enjoy exasperating riddles? — Janet Mullany

Said he little prince "But why do you always speak in riddles?"
"I solve them all" said the snake — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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. — Alexander Pope

Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers. — Lewis Carroll

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. — G.K. Chesterton

Women are riddles - I only argued upon the common sense of the thing. — Frederick Marryat

As you may well know by now, the Givers are mysterious, and love to speak in riddles. It's more annoying than having sand in your underpants ... — James Dashner

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories. — Mason Cooley

Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed. — Brian Rathbone

Do dreams mirror reality, or is it the other way round? The answers to such riddles are hidden from us — Jacob Rosenberg

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

The mind loves riddles but not the heart. The heart loves only to touch and be touched. — Marty Rubin

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles. — Aleister Crowley

Dreams were important, unconscious riddles that mirrored the heart. — John Katzenbach

Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word ... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns. — James Howe

True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. — Thomas Browne

What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?
(Answer: a mountain) — J.R.R. Tolkien

The longer you look the more you see," said the twins at the same time, "the more you see, the less you are. — J.A. Redmerski

All gifts are riddles, all lives/are in the middle of mother-lives. — Brenda Shaughnessy

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

Dreams and prophecies. Why must they always be in riddles? I hate this. — George R R Martin

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. — Roberto Unger