#Riddle Quotes

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

“I with borrow'd silver shine,What you see is none of mine.First I show you but a quarter,Like the bow that guards the Tartar:Then the half, and then the whole,Ever dancing round the pole.”

“Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.”

“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.”

“Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.”

“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.”

“Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?”

“What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. "Not fair! not fair!" he hissed. "It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?”

“Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.”

“If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?”