Riddles

1.

What get wetter and wetter the more it dries?

2.

You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?

3.

What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps?

4.

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?



5.

What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

6.

What can you catch but not throw?

7.

I can run but not walk. Wherever I go, thought follows close behind. What am I?

8.

What's black and white and red all over?

9.

Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

10.

What is it that, after you take away the whole, some still remains?