Riddles

Published May 18, 2013

Riddles

1. You eat something you neither plant nor plow. It is the son of water, but if water touches it, it dies.

2. My tines are long. My tines are short. My tines end ere My first report.

3. Turn us on our backs And open up our stomachs You will be the wisest of men Though at start a lummox.

4. Bury deep, Pile on stones, Yet I will Dig up the bones.

5. It occurs once in every minute Twice in every moment And yet never in one hundred thousand years.

6. Never ahead, ever behind, Yet flying swiftly past; For a child I last forever, For adults I’m gone too fast.

7. Two horses, swiftest travelling, Harnessed in a pair, and Grazing ever in places Distant from them.

8. It can be said: To be gold is to be good; To be stone is to be nothing; To be glass is to be fragile; To be cold is to be cruel. Unmetaphored, what am I? 9. What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, And yet never grows?

10. Thirty white horses on a red hill, First they champ, Then they stamp, Then they stand still.

Answers: 1. Ice 2. Lightning 3. A book 4. Memories 5. The letter ‘M’ 6 Childhood 7. Your eyes 8. A heart 9. A mountain 10. Your teeth

  Compiled by The Surfer

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