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What has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows?
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An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
'That eye is like to this eye'
Said the first eye,
'But in low place
Not in high place.'
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No-legs lay on one-leg, two legs sat near on three legs, four legs got some.
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Alive without breath,
As cold as death;
Never thirsty, ever drinking,
All in mail never clinking
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It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt.
It lies behind stars and under hills,
And empty holes it fills.
It comes first and follows after,
Ends life, kills laughter.
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Thirty white horses on a red hill,
First they champ,
Then they stamp,
Then they stand still.
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A box without hinges, key or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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Voiceless it cries,
Wingless flutters,
Toothless bites,
Mouthless mutters.
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A woman has 7 children, half of them are boys. How can this be possible?
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I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never
released, and yet I am used by almost everybody.
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What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house?
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What is it that you can keep after giving it to someone else?
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Paul's height is six feet, he's an assistant at a butcher's shop, and wears size 9 shoes.
What does he weigh?
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What gets wet when drying?
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What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
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What is round as a dishpan, deep as a tub, and still the oceans couldn't fill it up?
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What goes up and down stairs without moving?
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The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they?
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A cowboy rode into town on Friday, stayed three days, and rode out again on Friday.
How did he do that?
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Brothers and sisters have I none but that man's father is my father's son.
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2 fathers and 2 sons go fishing. Each of them catches one fish. So why do they
bring home only 3 fishes?
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I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.
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What goes round and round the wood but never goes into the wood?
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Mom and Dad have four daughters, and each daughter has one brother. How many people
are in the family?
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I have a little house in which I live all alone. It has no doors or windows, and if I
want to go out I must break through the wall.
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Scarcely was the father in this world when the son could be found sitting on the roof.
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There are four brothers in this world that were all born together. The first runs
and never wearies. The second eats and is never full. The third drinks and is always
thirsty. The fourth sings a song that is never good.
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A cloud was my mother, the wind is my father, my son is the cool stream, and my daughter
is the fruit of the land. A rainbow is my bed, the earth my final resting place, and I'm
the torment of man.
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Poke your fingers in my eyes and I will open wide my jaws.
Linen cloth, quills, or paper, my greedy lust devours them all.
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What is that which goes with a carriage, comes with a carriage, is of no use to a carriage, and yet
the carriage cannot go without it?
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It stands on one leg with its heart in its head.
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It's been around for thousands of years, but it's no more than a month old.
What is it?
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A white dove flew down by the castle. Along came a king and picked it up handless,
ate it up toothless, and carried it away wingless.
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As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight
nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?
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What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
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What goes up the chimney down, but can't go down the chimney up?
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What is is that you will break even when you name it?
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What fastens two people yet touches only one?
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What is it the more you take away the larger it becomes?
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I am the beginning of sorrow, and the end of sickness. You cannot express happiness
without me, yet I am in the midst of crosses. I am always in risk, yet never in danger.
You may find me in the sun, but I am never out of darkness.
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What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?
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A man was found murdered on Sunday morning. His wife immediately called the police. The police
questioned the wife and staff and got these alibis:
The Wife said she was sleeping.
The Cook was cooking breakfast.
The Gardener was picking vegetables.
The Maid was getting the mail.
The Butler was cleaning the closet.
The police instantly arrested the murderer. Who did it and how did they know?
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What holds water yet is full of holes?
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Though it is not an ox, it has horns; though it is not an ass, it has a pack-saddle;
and wherever it goes it leaves silver behind. What is it?
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Lives without a body, hears without ears, speaks without a mouth, to which the air alone
gives birth.
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A hundred-year-old man and his head one night old.
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What goes into the water red and comes out black?
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This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
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When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one knows what it is,
then it is nothing.
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What falls but doesn't break, and what breaks but doesn't fall?
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A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each
one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
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Only one color, but not one size,
Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies.
Present in sun, but not in rain,
Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.
What is it.
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A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, an attractive girl named
Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bustrip that would last a week. Before he left,
he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
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If a red house is made from red bricks, and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a
black house is made from black bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks, what is
a green house made of?
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What can be driven although it doesn't have wheels, sliced but stays whole?
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You use a knife to slice my head and weep beside me when I am dead. What am I?
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With thieves I consort, With the vilest, in short, I'm quite at ease in depravity; Yet all
divines use me, And savants can't lose me, For I am the center of gravity
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