Short Riddles

What's as small as a mouse but guards a house like a lion?

I am a seed, three letters in the name,
Take away two and I sound quite the same.
What am I?

What's always coming, but never arrives?

Tall when seated, short when standing.

Two birds, trying to balance in one twig.

What jumps when it walks and sits when it stands?

I am something that floats. But after a period of time I fall.

What has to be broken before you can use it?

What is so delicate that even mentioning it breaks it?

What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

What flies around all day but never goes anywhere?

With head without hair. With mouth without tooth.

What grows in winter, dies in summer, and grows roots upward?

A deep well full of knives

Two legs I have, and this will confound, only at rest do they touch the ground. What am I?

An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive!

Break it and it is better, immediately set and harder to break again.

Kills the bad ones and the sad ones. Tightens to fit, so one size fits.

I ate one and threw away two.

Slayer of regrets, old and new, sought by many, found by few.

What is put on a table, cut, but never eaten?

We are five little objects of an everyday sort,
You will find us all in a tennis court.

I have a tongue but cannot taste. I have a soul but cannot feel. What am I?

I bind it and it walks. I loose it and it stops.

What can you fold but not crease?

You can only have it once you have given it.

Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.

What goes in the water black and comes out red?

When the creeper passes, all the grass kneels.

What do you have when you're sitting down that you don't have when you're standing up?

I have three hundred cattle, with a single nose cord.

There is a creature of God whose body is hard; it does not wish to eat unless you strike its head.

The virgin gave birth to a child and threw away the blanket.

The more you take the more you leave behind.

What has a big mouth, yet never speaks?

What kind of street does a ghost like best?

Which tree is the most difficult to get along with?

Weight in my belly, trees on my back. Nails in my ribs, feet I do lack. What am I?

What does an old tan broken down house wear outside?

What is it that no man wants, but no man wants to lose?

What's red and bad for your teeth?

What stinks when living and smells good when dead?

What has a foot but no leg?

What fastens two people yet touches only one?

Which popular cheese is made backwards?

What goes up and down without moving?

What kind of room has no doors or windows?

What kind of room doesn't have physical walls?

What type of house weighs the least?

What starts with a P, ends with an E and has a million letters in it?

What do you get if you put a radio in the fridge?

What can you catch but not throw?

What is a Mummy's favorite type of music?

There is a kind of fish that can never swim.
What is that?

What's the red stuff between elephant's toes?

What is bought by the yard by is worn by the foot?

The shorter I am, the bigger I am.
What am I?

What ship has no captain but two mates?

What starts with an "e" but only has a single letter in it?

What building has the most stories?

I have eight to spare and am covered with hair.

Which side of a cat has the most fur?

What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

What always goes to bed with its shoes on?

What kind of cup doesn't hold water?

Although I'm far from the point, I'm not a mistake. I fix yours. What am I?

I have four legs, a back, but no head. What am I?

Everyone has me but nobody can lose me.
What am I?

What has 4 fingers and a thumb, but is not living?

What is all over a house?

What has 4 eyes but can't see?

What starts with the letter T, is filled with T and ends in T?

I am the first you ever saw, what greets you every morning and what goes out in the end.

Even if you throw it away, it still comes back.

A father's child, a mother's child, yet no one's son.

I have a pet, his body is full of coins.

What has one eye but cannot see?

Tear one off and scratch my head, what once was red is black instead!

Forwards I am heavy, but backwards I am not.
What am I?

When I point up it's bright, but when I point down it's dark. What am I?

I'm where yesterday follows today and tomorrow is in the middle. What am I?

What seven-letter word becomes longer when the third letter is removed?

What heavy seven letter word can you take two away from and be left with eight?

He's small but he can climb a tower.

What time is spelled the same forwards and backwards?

What is something you will never see again?

What five-letter word, no matter how you pronounce it, is always pronounced wrong?

What's that 7 letter word with thousands of letters in it?

I can be as thin as a picture frame but my insides have many things you can see.

What type of dress can never be worn?

What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?

Lighter than what I'm made of, more of me is hidden than is seen. What am I?

I have eighty-eight keys but cannot open a single door.
What am I?

Travel a mile and I will change, travel a million and I will end as I started. What am I?

Handy when you need to measure something or run a kingdom.

Your reflection can be seen here, as long as you're not moving.

What 11-letter English word is always pronounced incorrectly?

What can be measured but has no length, width or height?

What word looks the same upside down and backwards?

What can travel around the world while staying in a corner?