My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents†is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

-Benchley, Robert Charles
  Chips Off the Old Benchley,'Safety Second'.

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

-Berlin, Sir Isaiah
  The Crooked Timber of Humanity,'The Decline of Utopian Ideals in the West'.

   Underall theroofs ofthis distracted City isthenodus of a drama, not untragical, crowding towards solution.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  History of the French Revolution, vol.1, bk.5, ch.6.

And now, what will become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

-Kava¤  fis
  'Waiting for the Barbarians' (translated by E Keeley and P Sherrard).

   It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  The Scandal of Father Brown,'Point of a Pin'.

You're either part of the solution, or you're part of the problem.

-Cleaver, Eldridge
  Speech, San Francisco.

  Iherebycommissionyouto carryout all thepreparations withregardto†atotal solutionoftheJewishquestion, in those territories of Europe that are under German influence.

-Goering, HermannWilhelm
  Directive to the Nazi High Command, 31  Jul, quoted in William Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1962).

My solution to the problem would be to tell them that they've got to draw in their horns, or we're going to bomb them into the Stone Age.

-LeMay, Curtis Emerson
Of the North Vietnamese. Mission with LeMay (1965).

In so far as the familyas an institution turns women into darling littleslaves andmenintotheirchief providers and unweaned dependents, the problem of a satisfactory marriage remains incapable of purely private solution.

-Mills, C(harles) Wright
  The Sociological Imagination, ch.1.

Life itself is a mystery which defies solution.

-Mortimer, SirJohn Clifford
  In the Sunday Times,1  Apr.