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At night they come without being fetched,
And by day they are lost without being stolen
Answer: the stars
 
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 breathe on this terrestrial ball
Answer: Tomorrow
 
The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.
Answer: The letter 'e'
 
Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
Answer: a coffin
 
I know a word of letters three.
Add two, and fewer there will be.
Answer: few
 
Whoever makes it, tells it not.
Whoever takes it, knows it not.
And whoever knows it wants it not.
Answer: counterfeit money
 
Two words, my answer is only two words.
To keep me, you must give me
Answer: your word
 
When young, I am sweet in the sun.
When middle-aged, I make you gay.
When old, I am valued more than ever
Answer:: Wine 
 
All about, but cannot be seen,
Can be captured, cannot be held,
No throat, but can be heard.
Answer: The wind
 
I am only useful
When I am full,
Yet I am always
Full of holes.
Answer: a spnge
 
Glittering points
That downward thrust,
Sparkling spears
That never rust
Answer: icicle
 
You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
'Till you call me again.
Answer: Echo
 
Three lives have I.
Gentle enough to soothe the skin,
Light enough to caress the sky,
Hard enough to crack rocks.
Answer: water
 
You can see nothing else
When you look in my face,
I will look you in the eye
And I will never lie.
Answer: your reflection
 
Lovely and round,
I shine with pale light,
grown in the darkness,
A lady's delight.
Answer: a pearl
 
At the sound of me, men may dream
Or stamp their feet
At the sound of me, women may laugh
Or sometimes weep
Answer: music
 
When I am filled
I can point the way,
When I am empty
Nothing moves me,
I have two skins
One without and one within.
Answer: a glove
 
With thieves I consort,
With the vilest, in short,
I'm quite at ease in depravity;
Yet all divines use me,
And savants can't lose me,
For I am the center of gravity.
Answer: the letter 'v'
 
As a whole, I am both safe and secure.
Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.
What am I?
Answer: stable
 
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?
Answer: nothing
 
I build up castles.
I tear down mountains.
I make some men blind,
I help others to see.
What am I?
Answer: sand
 
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it,
Five in the middle is seen;
First of all figures, the first of all letters,
Take up their stations between.
Join all together, and then you will bring
Before you the name of an eminent king.
Answer: DAVID
 
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. What are they?
Answer: A stove, fire, and smoke
 
I fly, yet I have no wings. I cry, yet I have no eyes. Darkness follows me; lower light I never see.
Answer: A cloud
 
What walks on four legs in the morning, two at mid-day, and three in the evening?
Answer: A human does. As a baby, it crawls; in old age, uses a cane
 
What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains?
Answer: The word 'wholesome'
 
I have hands that wave at you,
Though I never say goodbye.
It's cool for you to be with me,
Especially when I say, "HI."
What am I?
Answer: An electric fan
 
You can have me but cannot hold me;
Gain me and quickly lose me.
If treated with care I can be great,
And if betrayed I will break.
What am I?
Answer: Trust
 
My thunder comes before the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?
Answer: A volcano
 
In a marble hall white as milk
Lined with skin as soft as silk
Within a fountain crystal-clear
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in to steal its gold.
Mother Goose
Answer: An egg

If you break me
I do not stop working,
If you touch me
I may be snared,
If you lose me
Nothing will matter.
Answer: Heart
 
If a man carried my burden
He would break his back.
I am not rich,
But leave silver in my track
Answer: a snail
 
Until I am measured
I am not known,
Yet how you miss me
When I have flown.
Answer: time
 
I drive men mad
For love of me,
Easily beaten,
Never free.
Answer: Gold
 
I go around in circles
But always straight ahead,
Never complain
No matter where I am led.
Answer: a wagon wheel
 
Lighter than what
I am made of,
More of me is hidden
Than is seen.
Answer: Iceberg
 
I turn around once,
What is out will not get in.
I turn around again,
What is in will not get out
Answer: stopcock
 
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
Answer: shadow
 
Bright as diamonds,
Loud as thunder,
Never still,
A thing of wonder.
Answer: waterfall
 
My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
Answer: candle
 
To unravel me
You need a simple key,
No key that was made
By locksmith's hand,
But a key that only I
Will understand.
Answer: cipher
 
I am seen in the water
If seen in the sky,
I am in the rainbow,
A jay's feather,
And lapis lazuli.
Answer: blue
 
What does a spider have that has no eyes but can still see?
Answer: a web site
 
What do the poor have, the rich want and god fears?
Answer: nothing
 
When is a door not a door?
Answer: When it's ajar
 
What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Answer: A towel
 
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
Answer: An ear of corn
 
What goes up and down the stairs without moving?
Answer: A rug
 
What can you catch but not throw?
Answer: A cold
 
What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
Answer: A stamp
 
Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?
Answer: A tissue 
 
What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?
Answer: A river 
 
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
Answer: silence
 
A certain crime is punishable if attempted but not punishable if committed. What is it?
Answer: Suicide
 
You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
Answer: An onion
 
I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
Answer: A shadow
 
I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
Answer: A tree
 
I went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?
Answer: A splinter
 
I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?
Answer: A hole
 
I'm light as a feather, yet the strongest man can't hold me for much more than a minute. What am I?
Answer: Breath
 
I am the black child of a white father, a wingless bird, flying even to the clouds of heaven. I give birth to tears of mourning in pupils that meet me, even though there is no cause for grief, and at once on my birth I am dissolved into air. What am I?
Answer: Smoke
 
Pronounced as one letter,
And written with three,
Two letters there are,
And two only in me.
I'm double, I'm single,
I'm black, blue, and gray,
I'm read from both ends,
And the same either way.
What am I?
Answer: Eye
 
I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?
Answer: Tomorrow
 
 
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