Here are the riddles I have so far - in no particular order. Click 'Submit' (at the bottom of the page) if you'd like to suggest a riddle to be added.
1.
I am your constant companion. I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you downward. I am completely at your command.
Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me and I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed--you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done and after a few lessons I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great people and of all failures.
Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine plus with all the intelligence of a person.
You may run me for profit or run me for ruin--it makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me, and I will place the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
Who am I?
2.
It stands on one leg with its heart in its head.
What is it?
3.
What force and strength cannot get through,
I, with a simple touch, can do;
And many in the street would stand,
Were I not, as a friend, at hand.
What am I?
4.
What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its root upwards?
5.
Iron roof
Glass walls
Burns and burns
And never falls.
What is it?
6.
The greater it is, the less you see of it.
What is it?
7.
I have two bodies, both joined in one.
The more I stand still, the quicker I run.
What am I?
8.
The more you take from it, the larger it gets.
What is it?
9.
Where does Friday come before Thursday?
10.
Walk on the living, they don't even mumble.
Walk on the dead, they grumble and grumble.
What are they?
11.
It has neither mouth, nor teeth, nor bowels;
Yet it eats its food steadily.
It has neither village, nor home, nor hands, nor feet;
Yet it wanders everywhere.
It has neither country, nor means, nor office, nor pen;
Yet it is ready for fight always.
By day and by night there is wailing about it. It has no breath; yet to all it appears.
What is it?
12.
Green skin, red meat, full of sugar, hard to beat.
What is it?
13.
What has a foot on each end and one in the middle?
14.
Goes over all the hills and hollows,
Bites hard, but never swallows.
What is it?
15.
What is so airy
That hands can't take,
Though one little word
Is enough to break it?
16.
What can you hold
No matter how old
In your left hand
That you can't hold
No matter how bold
In your right hand?
17.
My two points are joined together by crooked iron; with the wind I wrestle, with the depths of the sea I fight; I search out the midmost water, and I bite the very ground itself.
What am I?
18.
As I was going over London Bridge, I saw something in the hedge. It had four fingers and one thumb, and was neither fish, flesh, fowl nor bone.
What was it?
19.
I never was, am always to be,
None ever saw me, nor ever will,
And yet I am the confidence of all
Who live and breathe on this terrestrial ball.
What am I?
20.
At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen.
What are they?
21.
The more you take, the more you leave behind.
What are they?
22.
A hollow ship with freight of slops,
Inside a cave her anchor drops.
What is it?
23.
There are four brothers in this world
That were all born together:
The first he runs and never wearies,
The second eats and is never full.
The third he drinks and is ever thirsty
And the fourth sings a song that is never good.
What are the four brothers' names?
24.
Ten men's strength, and ten men's length, and ten men cannot set it on end; yet one man may bear it.
What is it?
25.
The man who makes it doesn't want it.
The man who buys it doesn't need it.
The man who uses it doesn't know it.
What is it?
26.
I live above a star, and yet I never burn,
I have eleven neighbors, and yet none of them turn,
I am visited in sequence, first, last or in between,
PRS are my initials, now tell me what I mean.
What am I?
27.
Known by dimples, speed, and strength,
A friend or foe who'll go a great length.
What is it?
28.
I create my opposite as I destroy it.
Without me my opposite is nothing.
While I am here my opposite will always be.
What am I and what is my opposite?
29.
I am you,
I am me,
A pool of water yet dry as can be.
What am I ?
30.
I herald the darkness which descends on all creatures;
You will know my approach by moans and wracked features.
I visit the hippo, hyena, and horse,
But never go near snails and spiders, of course.
I would circle the globe, leaping one to the other,
Should all the world's peoples ever clasp hands together.
What am I?
31.
If to half a dozen you add six and five hundred, the result is clear, lucid and glowing.
What is it?
32.
Small or large,
It's light as a feather.
Yet no man can lift it,
Except in bad weather.
What is it?
33.
It is the playground of the soul,
It is the hospice of the self.
Morpheus' ancient province ---
Where nothing is real,
Where nothing is not,
Where nothing is.
What is it?
34.
What is deaf, dumb and blind and always tells the truth?
35.
I have no respect for justice.
I maim without killing.
I break hearts and ruin lives.
I am cunning and malicious and gather strength with age.
The more I am quoted, the more I am believed.
I flourish at every level of society.
My victims are helpless.
They cannot protect themselves against me because I have no name and no face.
To track me down is impossible.
The harder you try, the more elusive I become.
I am nobody’s friend.
Once I hurt people, they'll never quite be the same.
Who am I?
36.
What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, the poor have it, the rich need it, and if you eat it you'll die?
