Paradox Riddles:

Which room has no door, no windows, no floor and no roof?
Answer: A mush room!
How long did the Thirty Years War last?
Answer: Thirty Years, of course -- from 1618 to 1648.
How long did the Hundred Years War last?
Answer: 116 years, from 1337 to 1453.
What do we all put off until tomorrow?
Answer: Our clothes.
Which country makes panama hats?
Answer: Ecuador.
What starts with \e\ ends with \e\ and contains only one letter?
Answer: An envelope!
What is a camel's hair brush made of?
Answer: Squirrel fur.
What has eyes but can't see?
Answer: Potatoes.
What is the difference between the teacher and a cashier?
Answer: One tills the mind and the other minds the till.
If you were pushed down a flight of stairs, what would you fall against?
Answer: You would fall against your will.
What is hard to beat?
Answer: A drum with a hole in it.
What do men want the least on their hands?
Answer: Handcuffs.
What is too much for one, enough for two, but nothing at all for three?
Answer: A secret.
This you should always keep - no one else wants it.
Answer: Your temper.
How is seasickness like an auction?
Answer: One is the effects of a sail and the other is a sale of effects.
Born at the same time as the world, destined to live as long as the world, and yet never five weeks old. What is it?
Answer: The moon.
When is it easiest to see through a man?
Answer: When he has a pane (pain) in his stomach.
What can be measured, but has no length, width or height?
Answer: The temperature.
What is the end to which we all like to come?
Answer: Dividend.
Why is the world like a faulty jig saw puzzle?
Answer: Because peace is missing.
It wasn't my sister, nor my brother, but still was the child of my father and mother. Who was it?
Answer: The person speaking.
What do you break by saying just one word?
Answer: Silence.
What is everyone in the world doing at the same time?
Answer: Growing older.
What can't you see that is always before you?
Answer: The future.
What flies when it's on and floats when it's off?
Answer: A feather.
What has a big mouth, yet never speaks?
Answer: A jar.
How can you tell the difference between two trees?
Answer: Listen to their barks.
What question can you never answer \yes\ to?
Answer: Are you asleep?
What is full of holes and yet holds water?
Answer: A sponge.
What can you hold without ever touching or using your hands?
Answer: Your breath.
With what do you fill a barrel to make it lighter than when it is empty?
Answer: Holes.
When is a baby not a baby?
Answer: When it is a little cross.
What is neither inside the house, outside the house, but no house is complete without it?
Answer: Windows.
What can be right but never wrong?
Answer: A right angle.
What is it that everyone always overlooks?
Answer: One's nose.
What is it that we often return but never borrow?
Answer: Thanks.
Why is a crossword puzzle like a quarrel?
Answer: Because one word leads to another.
What is always coming but never arrives?
Answer: Tomorrow.
What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
Answer: Carpet.
Why is a bad cold like a great humiliation?
Answer: Because it brings the proudest man to his sneeze.
What increases the more you share it with others?
Answer: Joy.
What is the hardest thing to about learning to ride a bike?
Answer: The pavement.
What is black and white and red all over?
Answer: An embarrassed zebra (not a newspaper which is \READ\).
Why is a schoolboy being paddled like your eye?
Answer: Because he is a pupil under a lash.
What lives on its own substance and dies when it devours itself?
Answer: A candle.
What is the best thing to make in a hurry?
Answer: Haste!
What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen?
Answer: Time to get a new clock.
What does everyone have that he can always count on?
Answer: Your fingers.
What is it that you must keep after giving it to someone else?
Answer: Your word.
What is lengthened by being cut at both ends?
Answer: A ditch.
What is that of which the common sort is best?
Answer: Common SENSE.
What is it that you cannot hold even ten minutes, even though it is lighter than a feather?
Answer: Your breath.
What can be felt, yet has neither length, breadth, nor thickness?
Answer: A kiss.
What is it that no one wishes to have yet no one wishes to lose?
Answer: A bald head.
What does a woman look for while hoping not to find it?
Answer: A hole or run in her stocking.
The more you take away from it the larger it becomes; the more you add to it, the smaller it becomes.
Answer: A hole in the ground.
What always weighs the same, whether larger or smaller?
Answer: A hole.
What always remains down even when it flies up in the air?
Answer: A feather.
As long as I eat, I live. When I drink, I die.
Answer: Fire.
What is it that you find here, but you never have, yet often give up?
Answer: A riddle.
When does a man cease to be a man?
Answer: When he turns into a lane.
How might you be completely sleepless for 7 days and still not lack any rest?
Answer: By sleeping at night.
What is it that is put on the table, cut, and passed, but never eaten?
Answer: A deck of cards.
What are drunk but never intoxicated?
Answer: Toasts.
What is broken without being hit or dropped?
Answer: A promise.
When is a man two men?
Answer: When he is beside himself.
What stays hot longest in the refrigerator?
Answer: Red pepper.
When is a woman not a woman?
Answer: When she is a little pale.
What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its root upward?
Answer: An icicle.
What is it that every child spends much time making, yet no one can ever see it when it is made?
Answer: Noise.
What day of the year is a command to go forward?
Answer: March fourth.
If you see a counterfeit coin on the street, why should you pick it up?
Answer: Because you may be arrested for passing it.
Why is an empty purse always the same?
Answer: There is never any change in it.
Why is everyone especially tired on April 1st?
Answer: Because we have just finished a March of 31 days.
Why is a lucky gambler so agreeable?
Answer: Because he has such winning ways.
What 8-letter word has one letter in it?
Answer: Envelope.
When do women talk the least?
Answer: In February, the shortest month of the year.
How can you eat and study at the same time?
Answer: Eat alphabet soup.
When is it particularly difficult to catch a train?
Answer: When the train has already left.
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