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here, there, and everywhere-an opinionated riddle.

here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.

Mary Downing Hahn
Riddle, Opinionated

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

Friedrich Nietzsche
Pregnancy, Riddle, Solutions
Friedrich Nietzsche, Graham Parkes (2008). “Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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

Stephen Jay Gould
Causes, Riddle, Resolve

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

Maya Angelou
Music, Riddle
Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.185, Random House

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

Mason Cooley
Wisdom, Riddle, Pun

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
Waiting, Found, Riddle
George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1423, e-artnow

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
Women, Riddle, Please
Alexander Pope, Owen Ruffhead (1807). “Poetry and letters-1807”, p.115

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

Albert Einstein
World, Riddle, Eternal
Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.340, Running Press

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