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Riddle: I come in different shapes and sizes. Part of me are curves, others are straight. You can put me anywhere you like, but there is only one..
Riddle: What can be touched but can't be seen?Answer: Someone's heart
Riddle: What insect does a blacksmith manufacture?Answer: He makes the firefly.
Riddle: The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true. Are these sentences true or false?Answer: Neither, it's a paradox. If the..
Riddle: I’m a monster who loves to jest, playing tricks is what I do best. Who am I?Answer: Prankenstein. This playful monster embodies the spirit of..
Riddle: Why can't Kevin Laroche, who is now living in Canada, not be buried in the USA?Answer: Because he is still alive! He is not dead
Riddle: A time when they are green, a time when they're brown, but both of these times, cause me to frown. But just in between, for a..
Riddle: What symbol can be put between 2 and 3 to make the result greater than 2 but less than 3?Answer: A decimal point
Riddle: I know a word of letters three, add two and fewer there will be?Answer: The word "few". Add "er" and it becomes fewer.
Riddle: You are in a room with one chair in the center of the room. The room is to small to lie down in or stand up in. The walls are covered in..
Riddle: The man that builds it doesn't use it. The man that needs it doesn't know it. The man that wants it doesn't sell it. What is it?Answer: A..
Riddle: At night they come without being fetched, and by day they are lost without being stolen. What are they?Answer: Stars.
Riddle: What is the longest word in the dictionary?Answer: Smiles (there is a mile between the two S's)
Riddle: Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on Earth?Answer: Mt. Everest.
Riddle: Why should you always carry a watch when crossing a desert?Answer: It has a spring in it
Bread And Gravy
There's a heap o' satisfaction in a chunk o' pumpkin pie,An' I'm always glad I'm livin' when the cake is passin' by;An' I guess at every meal-time..
© Edgar Albert Guest
Playing The Game
When the umpire calls you out,It's no use to stamp and shout,Wildly kicking dust about—Play the game!And though his decision mayEnd your chances for..
© Edgar Albert Guest
The Family Doctor
I've tried the high-toned specialists, who doctor folks to-day;I've heard the throat man whisper low 'Come on now let us spray';I've sat in fancy..
© Edgar Albert Guest
When The Young Are Grown
Once the house was lovely, but it's lonely here to-day,For time has come an' stained its walls an' called the young away;An' all that's left for..
© Edgar Albert Guest
Living
The miser thinks he's living when he's hoarding up his gold;The soldier calls it living when he's doing something bold;The sailor thinks it living to..
© Edgar Albert Guest
Youth
If I had youth I'd bid the world to try me;I'd answer every challenge to my will.Though mountains stood in silence to defy me,I'd try to make them..
© Edgar Albert Guest
Playing For Keeps
I've watched him change from his bibs and things, from bonnets known as 'cute,'To little frocks, and later on I saw him don a suit;And though it was..
© Edgar Albert Guest
When The Drums Shall Cease To Beat
When will the laughter ring again in the way that it used to do?Not till the soldiers come home again, not till the war is through.When will the..
© Edgar Albert Guest
Prophecy
We shall thank our God for gracesThat we've never known before;We shall look on manlier facesWhen our troubled days are o'er.We shall rise a better..
© Edgar Albert Guest
The Gold Star
The star upon their service flag has changed to gleaming gold;It speaks no more of hope and life, as once it did of old,But splendidly it glistens..
© Edgar Albert Guest