Easy riddles
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
2 answers: Chicken bone an ear of corn
I'm tall when I'm young and I'm short when I'm old. What am I?
A candle
Throw it off the highest building, and I'll not break. But put me in the ocean, and I will. What am I?
a tissue
I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
a tree
I'm where yesterday follows today, and tomorrow's in the middle. What am I?
a dictionary
Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
What is it?
A coffin
What can you catch but not throw?
a cold
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 went into the woods and got it. I sat down to seek it. I brought it home with me because I couldn't find it. What is it?
a splinter
From the beginning of eternity To the end of time and space To the beginning of every end And the end of every place. What am I?
The letter "e"
What's black and white and red all over?
An embarrassed skunk. A zebra painted red. A sunburned penguin. A newspaper.
Give me food, and I will live; give me water, and I will die. What am I?
Fire
No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?
Silence. A secret.
What has a head and a tail, but no body?
a coin
At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?
stars or dreams
What goes around the world but stays in a corner?
a stamp
What has hands but can not clap?
a clock
You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
An onion
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 (we can't see the future)
A man is pushing his car along the road when he comes to a hotel. He shouts, "I'm bankrupt!" Why?
He was playing monopoly
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
I run over fields and woods all day. Under the bed at night I sit not alone. My tongue hangs out, up and to the rear, awaiting to be filled in the morning. What am I?
A shoe.
I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky. I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry. What am I?
a shadow
What kind of tree can you carry in your hand?
A palm
Pronounced as one letter, And written with three, Two letters there are, And two only in me. I'm double, I'm black, blue, brown, and gray. What am I?
an eye