riddles
I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?
A barber
What has words, but never speaks?
A book
I'm tall when I'm young, and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
A candle
What is black when it's clean and white when it's dirty?
A chalkboard
The person who makes it has no need of it; the person who buys it has no use for it. The person who uses it can neither see nor feel it. What is it?
A coffin
What has many teeth, but can't bite?
A comb
What has a thumb and four fingers, but is not a hand?
A glove
I have lakes with no water, mountains with no stone and cities with no buildings. What am I?
A map
If you drop me I'm sure to crack, but give me a smile and I'll always smile back. What am I?
A mirror
What has many keys but can't open a single lock?
A piano
What has lots of eyes, but can't see?
A potato
What can you break, even if you never pick it up or touch it?
A promise
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
A river
What kind of band never plays music?
A rubber band
What is full of holes but still holds water?
A sponge
What goes up and down but doesn't move?
A staircase
What can travel all around the world without leaving its corner?
A stamp
What gets wet as it dries?
A towel
I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I'm the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space. What am I?
Also the letter "e"
What can't talk but will reply when spoken to?
An echo
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
What question can you never answer yes to?
Are you asleep yet?
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 2/4 goat?
Chicago
The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?
Darkness
David's parents have three sons: Snap, Crackle, and what's the name of the third son?
David
What breaks yet never falls, and what falls yet never breaks?
Day, and night
I am a word of letters three; add two and fewer there will be. What word am I?
Few[just a random pic]
I am always hungry and will die if not fed, but whatever I touch will soon turn red. What am I?
Fire
A man who was outside in the rain without an umbrella or hat didn't get a single hair on his head wet. Why?
He was bald.
What word in the English language does the following: The first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
Heroine
What can fill a room but takes up no space?
Light
People make me, save me, change me, raise me. What am I?
Money
What 4-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?
NOON
What does man love more than life, hate more than death or mortal strife; that which contented men desire; the poor have, the rich require; the miser spends, the spendthrift saves, and all men carry to their graves?
Nothing
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
Queue
What is so fragile that saying its name breaks it?
Silence.
What is always in front of you but can't be seen?
The future
A man looks at a painting in a museum and says, "Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man's father is my father's son." Who is in the painting?
The man's son
You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?
The match
Speaking of rivers, a man calls his dog from the opposite side of the river. The dog crosses the river without getting wet, and without using a bridge or boat. How?
The river was frozen.
What goes up but never comes down?
Your age
It belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do. What is it?
Your name
What can you hold in your left hand but not in your right?
Your right elbow
I follow you all the time and copy your every move, but you can't touch me or catch me. What am I?
Your shadow
What can you keep after giving to someone?
Your word
