Riddles

Little Miss Eticote In her white petticoat And her red nose The longer she stands The shorter she grows

A Candle

I have four legs but no tail. Usually I am heard only at night. What am I?

A Frog

If you break me I do not stop working, If you touch me I may be snared, If you lose me Nothing will matter.

A Heart

What force and strength cannot get through, I, with a gentle touch, can do. And many in the street would stand, were I not a friend at hand.

A Key

If you drop me I'm sure to crack but give me a smile and I'll always smile back

A Mirror

You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. And yet within that very place, my face you often see. What am I?

A Reflection

Only one color, but not one size, stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies; present in sun, but not in rain; doing no harm, and feeling no pain.

A Shadow

What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands?

A Shirt

A mile from end to end, yet as close to as a friend. A precious commodity, freely given. Seen on the dead and on the living. Found on the rich, poor, short and tall, but shared among children most of all. What is it?

A Smile

I'm full of holes, yet I'm full of water. What am I?

A Sponge

Ripped from my mother's womb, Beaten and burned, I become a blood thirsty killer. What am I?

A Sword

Soft and fragile is my skin I get my growth in mud I'm dangerous as much as pretty For if not careful, I draw blood.

A Thorn

I'm lighter than air but a million men can't lift me. What am I?

A bubble

As you look upon my face you won't see thirteen any place.

A clock

Alive without breath, As cold as death, Clad in mail never clinking, Never thirsty, ever drinking

A fish

It cannot be seen, it weighs nothing, but when put into a barrel, it makes it lighter. What is it?

A hole

What has roots that nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, Yet it never grows?

A mountain

Old Mother Twitchet had one eye and a long tail that she let fly. And every time she went through a gap, she left some tail in the trap

A needle and thread

I live in water If you cut my head I'm at your door, If you cut my tail I'm fruit, If you cut both I'm with you What am I?

A pearl

I am a box that holds keys without locks, yet they can unlock your soul. What am I?

A piano

My first is twice in apple but not once in tart. My second is in liver but not in heart. My third is in giant and also in ghost. Whole I'm best when I am roast. What am I?

A pig

When you went into the woods you got me. You hated me yet you wanted to find me. You went home with me cause you couldn't find me

A splinter

What gets wetter the more it dries.

A towel

Kings and lords and christians raised them Since they stand for higher powers Yet few of them would stand, I'm certain, if women ruled this world of ours

A tower

Round like an apple, deep like a cup, yet all the king's horses cannot pull it up.

A well

Kings and queens may cling to power and the jester's got his call But, as you may all discover, the common one outranks them all

An Ace

A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within. What is it?

An Egg

What question can you never honestly answer yes to?

Are you awake

Remove six letters from this sequence to reveal a familiar English word. BSAINXLEATNTEARS

Bananas

Birds and animals have countless battles with countless injuries but they won't stay away for long because they love the fight

Baseball

I am seen in the water If seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, A jay's feather, And lapis lazuli.

Blue

Black we are and much admired, men seek us if they are tired, We tire the horse, comfort man, guess this riddle if you can.

Coal

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

Corn

The more you have of it, the less you see. What is it?

Darkness

What begins and has no end? What is the ending of all that begins?

Death

I know a word of letters three. Add two, and fewer there will be

Few

I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I touch, Will soon turn red

Fire

I drive men mad For love of me, Easily beaten, Never free.

Gold

There is one word that stands the test of time and holds fast to the center of everything. Though everyone will try at least once in their life to move around this word, but in fact, unknowingly, they use it every moment of the day. Young or old, awake or in sleep, human or animal, this word stands fast. It belongs to everyone, to all living things, but no one can master it. The word is?

Gravity

I go in hard. I come out soft. You blow me hard. What am I?

Gum

How far will a blind dog walk into a forest?

Halfway

Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen.

Iceberg

Glittering points That downward thrust, Sparkling spears That never rust.

Icicle

I am, in truth, a yellow fork From tables in the sky By inadvertent fingers dropped The awful cutlery. Of mansions never quite disclosed And never quite concealed The apparatus of the dark To ignorance revealed.

Lighting

At the sound of me, men may dream Or stamp their feet At the sound of me, women may laugh Or sometimes weep

Music

What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire, What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves And all men carry to their graves?

Nothing

What good virtue put you on the verge of death

Patience

What has a head, a tail, is brown, and has no legs?

Penny

What makes a loud noise when changing its jacket, becomes larger but weighs less?

Popcorn

I build up castles. I tear down mountains. I make some men blind, I help others to see. What am I?

Sand

Each morning I appear To lie at your feet, All day I will follow No matter how fast you run, Yet I nearly perish In the midday sun.

Shadow

Say my name and I disappear. What am I?

Silence

At night they come without being fetched. By day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?

Stars

What starts with a T, ends with a T, and has "T" in it?

Teapot

Thirty white horses on a red hill, first champ, then stamp, and then stand still

Teeth

All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard.

The wind

Until I am measured I am not known, Yet how you miss me When I have flown.

Time

I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, To live and breath on this terrestrial ball. What am I?

Tomorrow

Forwards I'm heavy but, backwards I'm not what am I?

Ton

Three lives have I. Gentle enough to soothe the skin, Light enough to caress the sky, Hard enough to crack rocks.

Water

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?

Watermelon

What is it that after you take away the whole, some still remains?

Wholesome

When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you gray. When old, I am valued more than ever.

Wine

Two words is my answer. In order to keep me, you have to give me. What am I?

Your word

It's red, blue, purple and green, no one can reach it, not even the queen. What is it?

a rainbow

I can be long, or I can be short. I can be grown, and I can be bought. I can be painted, or left bare. I can be round, or square. What am I?

fingernail

The more you take, the more you leave behind

footsteps

It walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three legs in the evening. What is it?

man

I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns.

smoke