Alphabetically listed by riddle answer.

B

The less it is, the more it is dread.

Four legs. One foot. Many feathers. Can't fly.

Light as a feather, nothing in it. A stong man cannot hold it more than a minute.

A neck but no head.

Can't stand up until his belly is full.

C

Who becomes fat without eating? from an ancient Babylonian tablet

Fifty fill a box, one fills a barn.

Bought by the yard, worn by the foot.

I have both face and hands and move before your eyes. Yet when I go my body stands and when I stand, I lie.

A prison with holes like a net.

One who made it did not want it. One who bought it didn't use it. One who used it didn't know it.

I stand on one leg with my heart in my head.

Red flesh and heart of stone.

Four stiff standers, four dilly danders, two lookers, two crookers and a wigwag.

D

Enters the room without noise, without using the door.

Asks no questions, yet needs to be answered.

How far is it from the East to the West?

A messenger that couldn't speak. A letter that wasn't written. To a house with no foundation.

E

In this box without a lid, golden treasure neatly hid.

F

Goes round the house yet never comes in.

The more you take, the more you leave behind.

Feed me and I live. Give me water and I die.

Alive without breath, as cold as death. Never thirsty ever drinking, all in mail never clinking.

G

Four fingers, one thumb. Neither fish, flesh, fowl nor bone.

H

Out of the eater, something to eat, out of the strong something sweet. from the Bible

First burned, then beaten, then drowned and pierced with nails.

The more you take, the larger it grows.

Sharper than a thorn.

J

There was a man of Adam's race. He had a certain dwelling place. 'Twas neither in heaven, earth...nor hell. Tell me where that man did dwell?

K

The master holds me back with care as eagerly I paw the air.

What force or strength cannot get through, I with gentle touch can do.

L

Old as the hills but always new, a carpet dyed with every hue.

M

Goes on 4 legs in the morning, 2 legs at noon and 3 legs in the evening. riddle of the sphinx

I know a child born by my mother, natural born as any other that is neither my sister or brother.

Few think of me enough they've got but all can tell when they have not.

Has cities but no houses. Forests but no trees. Rivers but no fish.

Use me well and I am everybody. Scratch my back and I am nobody.

From this biscuit large and light, each night a thief will take a bite.

Alive above, alive below, dead between.

N

A carriage always goes with it. It cannot go without it. It is of no use to the carriage.

O

A beast equal to nothing, added to ten.

As I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives. Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats, each cat had seven kits. Kits, cats, sacks and wives, how many were going to St Ives?

P

White the field, black the seed.

Goes from house to house but never comes in.

I go to wash leaving my insides behind.

R

It has a mouth but does not speak, it has a bed but does not sleep.

Runs smoother than any rhyme, loves to fall, but cannot climb.

When I do not know what it is, it is something. When I know what it is, it is nothing.

Having neither top nor bottom, yet holding flesh, blood and bone.

When first I appear I seem mysterious, yet when I'm explained, I'm nothing serious.

Goes uphill and downhill yet never moves.

Purple, yellow, red, and green. The King cannot reach it, neither can the Queen.

S

Two brothers bear a burden, and by the load hard pressed. Full all through the day and empty when they rest.

You break it if you name it.

Grows in the field without roots.

Runs over fields all day, under the bed sits not alone, with long tongue lolling out awaiting for a bone.

Round as the world, deep as a cup. All the world's oceans could not fill it up.

Long boneless fellow.

My face is smooth and shining bright which mostly I keep out of sight within my house. Here I lie snug, unless in anger, I look out sharp suspecting danger.

Made by both the quick and the dead. Can be seen clearly but cannot be touched.

Enough for one. Too much for two. Nothing at all for three.

Always giving birth, always dying.

Out and about all day, yet I aways at home stay.

At night they come without being fetched, by day they are lost without being stolen.

Without bridle or saddle, across a thing I ride a-straddle, and those I ride because of me though almost blind are made to see.

Thick black blanket for the night. By day the blue one is so bright.

A thousand lights in a dish.

Opens like a barn door, shuts like a trap.

Over flat rock tomato redness slowly spreads.

Enter by three doors, exit by one.

Eyes open mouth shut, eyes shut mouth open.

Higher than a tree, bigger than a house, yet I seem to most men, smaller than a mouse.

I move without wings between silken strings. I leave as you find my substance behind.

There is a thing that nothing is and yet it has a name. It may be either short or tall, it tumbles down whene'er we fall and plays at every game.

T

When the beast bellows, it is heard across the land.

Long legs, strong thighs. Two hands, no eyes.

Rolls all day, lolls all night.

One leg, many fingers.

Row quickly with four oars but never comes out of his house.

Has no wings yet carries me over the ocean in a moment.

Cannot walk, but stands on legs.

V

His head is bent, his neck is long. You saw his belly for a song.

To half a dozen add six. Then five hundred. The whole is clear, bright and lively.

W

Four sisters race to overtake each other.

We're treasured up. We're thrown away. We're made to sting. We're made to play.

I tremble at each breath of air, yet can heaviest burdens bear.

A sharp knife cannot cut it.

A sheet that cannot be folded.