The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc. — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I'll ask you a riddle. What do you have more of the more you give away?' 'Oh, love I suppose.” — Madeline L'Engle Copy Share Image
Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip. — Klaus Teuber Copy Share Image
What has roots as nobody sees. Is taller than trees. Up, up it goes. And yet never grows? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“Oh, what is brighter than the light? What is darker than the night? What is kkener than an axe? What is softer… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The twins hobbled forward. "Freaks and dames and boys and things, drinks and bones and shiny rings," said the twin on the… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“It only put me in Griffindor. said Harry in a defeated voice, because I asked not to go in Slytherin... EXACTLY, said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as… — Rudolf Bultmann Copy Share Image
To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives,… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
For myself, I am interested in science and in philosophy only because I want to learn something about the riddle of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale:… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the… — John Denver Copy Share Image
Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below? — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
“Trust me. You’re a constant riddle with an ever-changing solution." ~ FBI Special Agent Clive Poole to Maggie Mae Castro” — Beth Yarnall Copy Share Image
“When you can see it, it's all that you can see; when it's not there anymore, you can see it thousands of… — Anonymus Copy Share Image
Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“He who discovers the heart of Arcrea and joins the hands of the seven regions will be king.” — Nicole Sager Copy Share Image
I know for a fact that this idea of the Jews causing the war and the Jews being so all important is… — Joachim von Ribbentrop Copy Share Image
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail… — Max Delbruck Copy Share Image
“The first question is: what is a sound that makes no sound?' And by the time Captain Lambestyo has thought of an… — Matt Suddain Copy Share Image
Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
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