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Riddle: How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number?Answer: One thousand.

Riddle: A man and a woman were driving in their car when it broke down. The man decided to go for help at a gas station a few miles back. He made..

Riddle: Why ought a fisherman to be very wealthy?Answer: Because his is all net profit.

Riddle: It speaks with a hard tongue, it cannot breathe, for it has no lungs. What is it?Answer: A Bell.

Riddle: Why are your nose and chin always at variance?Answer: Because words are passing between them.

Riddle: I killed one fourth of all mankind. Who am I?Answer: Cain (who killed Abel).

Riddle: No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?Answer: Silence.

Riddle: I pass before the sun, yet make no shadow. What am I?Answer: The wind.

Riddle: What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up?Answer: An umbrella.

Riddle: This old one runs forever but never moves at all. It has not lungs nor throat, but still a mighty roaring call. What is it?Answer: A..

Riddle: Mountains will crumble and temples will fall, and no man can survive its endless call. What is it?Answer: It is time.

Riddle: I was carried into a dark room and set on fire. I wept, and then my head was cut off. What am I?Answer: A Candle.

Riddle: A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?Answer: I am..

Riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me.  What am I ?Answer: Fire.

Riddle: I am as light as a feather, yet no man can hold me for long.  What am I ?Answer: Your Breath.

Riddle: Black I am and much admired, men seek me until they're tired. When they find me, they break my head, and take from me my resting bed. What am..

Riddle: Not born, but from a Mother's body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone. I sleep in a cave until I grow old, then valued for my hardened..

Riddle: They have not flesh, nor feathers, nor scales, nor bone. Yet they have fingers and thumbs of their own. What are they?Answer: Gloves.

Riddle: Many things can create one, it can be of any shape or size, it is created for various reasons, and it can shrink or grow with time. What is..

ALL-Conquering Death! by thy resistless pow'r,Hope's tow'ring plumage falls to rise no more!Of scenes terrestrial how the glories fly,Forget their..

Hail, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,Fair Freedom rose New-England to adorn:The northern clime beneath her genial ray,Dartmouth..

INDULGENT muse! my grov'ling mind inspire,And fill my bosom with celestial fire.See from Jamaica's fervid shore she moves,Like the fair mother of the..

THOUGH thou did'st hear the tempest from afar,And felt'st the horrors of the wat'ry war,To me unknown, yet on this peaceful shoreMethinks I hear the..

Celestial choir! enthron'd in realms of light,Columbia's scenes of glorious toils I write.While freedom's cause her anxious breast alarms,She flashes..

ON Death's domain intent I fix my eyes,Where human nature in vast ruin lies:With pensive mind I search the drear abode,Where the great conqu'ror has..