"What Am I?" Riddles with Answers

It's true I bring serenity, And hang around the stars But yet I live in misery; You'll find me behind bars With thieves and villains I consort In prison I'll be...

Each morning I appear to lie at your feet, All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, Yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.

When you went into the woods you got me. You hated me yet you wanted to find me. You went home with me cause you couldn't find me What was it?

Lighter than what I am made of, More of me is hidden Than is seen.

I am seen in the water if seen in the sky, I am in the rainbow, a jays feather,and lapis lazuli.

Kings and queens may cling to power and the jester's got his call, But, as you may all discover, the common one outranks them all.

My life can be measured in hours, I serve by being devoured. Thin, I am quick Fat, I am slow Wind is my foe.

What has a neck and no head, two arms but no hands?

I am a word of meanings three. Three ways of spelling me there be. The first is an odor, a smell if you will. The second some money, but not in a bill. The thir...

You saw me where I never was and where I could not be. And yet within that very place, my face you often see. What am I?

Soft and fragile is my skin, I get my growth in mud I'm dangerous as much as pretty, for if not careful, I draw blood.

I drift forever with the current down these long canals they've made, Tame, yet wild, I run elusive Multitasking to your aid. Before I came, the world was darke...

What does man love more than life Fear more than death or mortal strife What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire, What the miser spen...

Glittering points that downward thrust, Sparkling spears that never rust.

Three brothers share a family sport: A non-stop marathon The oldest one is fat and short And trudges slowly on The middle brother's tall and slim And keeps a st...

Every dawn begins with me At dusk I'll be the first you see And daybreak couldn't come without What midday centers all about Daises grow from me, I'm told And w...

All about, but cannot be seen, Can be captured, cannot be held, No throat, but can be heard.

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

I am always hungry, I must always be fed, The finger I touch, Will soon turn red

Until I am measured I am not known, Yet how you miss me when I have flown.

You heard me before, yet you hear me again, Then I die, untill you call me again.

A box without hinges, lock or key, yet golden treasure lies within. What is it?

I give you a group of three. One is sitting down, and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away a...

If you break me I do not stop working, If you touch me I may be snared, If you lose me Nothing will matter.