Riddles

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.

Answer:Pencil lead

What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house?

Answer:The sun

What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?

Answer:Your word

What walks all day on its head?

Answer:A nail in a horseshoe

What gets wetter as it dries ?

Answer:A towel

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

Answer:The letter M

What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?

Answer:A sieve

There were five men going to church and it started to rain. The four that ran got wet and the one that stood still stayed dry.

Answer:a Body in a coffin, and the coffin bearers

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?

Answer:Footsteps

He who has it doesn't tell it. He who takes it doesn't know it. He who knows it doesn't want it. What is it?

Answer:Counterfeit money

Brothers and sisters have I none but that man's father is my father's son.

Answer:My son

Who spends the day at the window, goes to the table for meals and hides at night?

Answer:A fly

I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.

Answer:A sandal

What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?

Answer:The bark of a tree

I went to the city, I stopped there, I never went there, and I came back again.

Answer:A watch

I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I want to go out I must break through the wall.

Answer:A chicken in an egg

Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof.

Answer:Fire, smoke

There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good.

Answer:Water, fire, earth, wind

A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm the torment of man.

Answer:Rain

Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws. Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all.

Answer:Shears (or scissors)

What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet the carriage cannot go without it?

Answer:Noise

It stands on one leg with its heart in its head.

Answer:A cabbage

It's been around for millions of years, but it's no more than a month old. What is it?

Answer:The moon

A white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and picked it up handless, ate it up toothless, and carried it away wingless.

Answer:Snow melted by the sun

As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?

Answer:Sawdust

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?

Answer:Your name

What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?

Answer:An umbrella

What is is that you will break even when you name it?

Answer:Silence

What fastens two people yet touches only one?

Answer:A wedding ring

What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes?

Answer:A hole

I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger. You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.

The letter S

What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

Answer:A pack of cards

Who are the two brothers who live on opposite sides of the road yet never see each other?

Answer:Eyes

What holds water yet is full of holes?

Answer:A sponge

Though it is not an ox, it has horns; though it is not an ass, it has a pack-saddle; and wherever it goes it leaves silver behind. What is it?

Answer:A snail

Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone gives birth.

Answer:An echo

A hundred-year-old man and his head one night old.

Answer:Snow on a tree stump

What goes into the water red and comes out black?

Answer:A red-hot poker

What goes into the water black and comes out red?

Answer:A lobster

When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is, then it is nothing.

Answer:A riddle

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, and has a bed but never sleeps??

Answer: a river

What is light as a feather, but even the strongest man cannot hold it more than a few minutes?

Answer: your breath

On my way to the fair, I met 7 jugglers and a bear, every juggler had 6 cats, every cat had 5 rats, every rat had 4 houses, every house had 3 mouses, every mouse had 2 louses, every louse had a spouse. How many in all are going to the fair?

Answer: only me, all the others were commong from the fair.

Johnny's mother had four children. The first was April, the second was May, and the third was June. What was the name of her fourth child

Answer: Jonny

You are driving a bus. Four people get on, three people get off, then eight people get on and ten people get off, then 6 people get on and 2 more people get off. What color were the bus driver's eyes?

Answer:Whatever color your eyes are because you are driving the bus.