tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27540099483218300152024-02-20T07:09:21.016-08:00RiddlesJonahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15577475980551169039noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2754009948321830015.post-67687778276146643382007-03-15T04:03:00.000-07:002007-03-15T04:04:49.535-07:00My List of Riddles<p class="MsoNormal">RIDDLES</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">From <i style="">The Hobbit.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i style=""><o:p> </o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal">It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It lies behind stars and under hills,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>And empty holes it fills.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">It comes first and follows after,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>Ends life, kills laughter.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">[snow] lands upon castle gate. . . . </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Voiceless it cries </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Wingless it flutters,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tooothless bites</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Mouthless mutters</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">A box without hinges, key, or lid,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Yet golden treasure inside are hid,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This thing all things devours:</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Gnaws iron, bites steel;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Grinds hard stones to meal;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Slays king, ruins town;</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And beats high mountains down.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <div style="border-style: none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color windowtext; border-width: medium medium 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">Alive without breath</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">As cold as death</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">Never thirsty, ever drinking</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;">All in mail never clinking</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="border: medium none ; padding: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What is greater than god,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">More villainous than the devil,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The rich want it </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The poor have it</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The miser spends it</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The spindrift saves it.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Water, water every where and not a drop to drink</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">---</p> <p class="MsoNormal">From <i style="">The Sorceror and the Glass, </i><st1:place><st1:placename>Dark</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype>Tower</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> series</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">When is a door not a door</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Why does a policeman where a belt</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We do people go to bed</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I pass before the sun and yet make no shadow.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Nothing it is yet it has a name</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes long, sometimes short</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Comes to our talks, comes to our sport</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And plays at every game</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Has a bed but never sleeps</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A mouth but never speaks</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What has four wheels and flies?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What is no sooner spoken than broken?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What has four legs at morning, two legs at mid-day and three legs at night?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Feed me and I live; give me a drink and I die.<span style=""> </span>What am I?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This is light as a feather yet no man can hold it for long.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">If you break me I’ll not stop working; if you can touch me my work is done; if you lose me you’d better find me with a ring soon after.<span style=""> </span>What am I?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Go up a chimney down but cannot go down a chimney up?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We are very little creatures and all have different features.<span style=""> </span>On of us in glass is set; one of us you’ll find in jet.<span style=""> </span>Another you may see in tin, and a forth is bound within.<span style=""> </span>If the fifth you should pursue, it can never fly from you.<span style=""> </span>What are we?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I have a hundred legs but cannot stand; a long neck but no head.<span style=""> </span>I eat the maids life.<span style=""> </span>What am I?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">This thing has runs but never walks, </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Sometimes sings but never talks</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Lacks arms, has hands</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Lacks a head, has a face.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What builds up castles, tears down mountains,</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Makes some people blind but others to see?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What lives in winter</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dies in summer</p> <p class="MsoNormal">And grows with its roots.. . upward?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Man walks over; man walks under; in time of war it burns asunder.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Has eyes but cannot see?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I occur once in a minute, twice in every moment, but not once in a thousand years.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In a tunnel of darkness lies a beast of<span style=""> </span>iron.<span style=""> </span>But it can only attack when pulled back.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Walk on the living, they don’t even mumble; walk on the dead, mutter and grumble. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">With no wings I fly; with no eyes I see.<span style=""> </span>With no arms I climb.<span style=""> </span>More frightening than any beast; stronger than any foe.<span style=""> </span>I am cunning, ruthless, and tall;<span style=""> </span>in the end, I rule all.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I am emeralds and diamonds. Lost by the moon.<span style=""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I am found by the sun and picked up soon. What am I?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Out of the eater came forth meat.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Out of the strong came sweetness. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>(I don’t like this one.<span style=""> </span>Biblical:<span style=""> </span>Samson kills a lion, then bees make a nest in <span style=""> </span><span style=""> </span>the skull.)</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Why did the dead baby cross the road??</p> <p class="MsoNormal">…..because it was stapled to the chicken!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">The big moron and the little moron were standing on a bridge over the River Send.<span style=""> </span>The big moron fell off.<span style=""> </span>How come the little moron didn’t fall too?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=""> </span>What’s Irish and stays out back of the house even if it rains?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What’s green, weighs a hundred tons and lives at the bottom of the ocean?<span style=""> </span>Moby Snot!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Why do people go to bed?</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What’s the difference between a truckload of bowling balls and a truckload of dead woodchucks?</p> <p class="MsoNormal">You can’t unload a truckload of bowling balls with a pitchfork!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">What’s the greatest riddle of the Orient??..... Many men smoke, but Fu Man Chu!</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Jonahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15577475980551169039noreply@blogger.com0