Riddles: Boy and Man
RIDDLES * “Three eyes have I, all in a row; when the red one opens, all freeze.” The answer is traffic light. * “What animal walks on all fours in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening?” The answer is man, since he crawls as a child then walks and uses a cane when he gets older. * What does “Mill + Walk + Key=” The answer is Milwaukee. * “What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?” A towel of course. * “No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?” It is silence. * “I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I?” A hole. * What is so fragile that when you say its name you break it? Silence. * I have a tail, and I have a head, but i have no body. I am NOT a snake. What am I? A coin. * What falls, but does not break, and what breaks but does not fall? Night falls and day breaks. * You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? An ear of corn. * I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I? A sponge. * 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. * 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./What am I? Tomorrow. * 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? 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? An eye. * A man is on a trip with a fox, a goose, and a