Proverbs, riddles, and charms

Difficult Riddles for Adults
If those riddles were a little easy, check out these difficult examples of riddles! Try them out on your friends and see if they can guess the answers.

1. 
   What animal walks on all fours in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening? (Answer: A person during the course of their life; they crawl as a child, walk as an adult, and use a cane as an elder)
   
2. 
   I am weightless, but you can see me. Put me in a bucket, and I'll make it lighter. What am I? (Answer: A hole)
   
3. 
   What falls, but does not break, and what breaks but does not fall? (Answer: Night falls and day breaks)
   
4. 
   You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat? (Answer: An ear of corn)
   
5. 
   What can run but never walks, has a mouth but never talks, has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps? (Answer: A river)
   
6. 
   I never was, am always to be; everyone's looking, but no one sees me. What am I? (Answer: Tomorrow.)
   
7. 
   Pronounced as one letter, and written with three. Two letters there are, and two only in me. I'm double, I'm single, I'm black, blue, and gray; I'm read from both ends, and the same either way. What am I? (Answer: An eye)
   
8. 
   The man who built it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't want it. The man who's using it doesn't know he's using it. What is it? (Answer: A coffin)
   
9. 
   Two mothers and two daughters bought three cars. They all drove home in their own car. How is that possible? (Answer: There were only three women total; a mother, her daughter — who is also a mother — and her daughter's daughter)
   
10. 
    A boat sinks and every single person drowns. Who survives? (Answer: The married people)
    
11. 
    Kelly has three daughters, and each daughter has a brother. How many children does Kelly have? (Answer: Four)
    
12. 
    The more you take, the more you leave behind. What are they? (Answer: Footsteps)
    
13. 
    I am always hungry and never stop eating, but water will kill me. What am I? (Answer: Fire)
    
14. 
    Where are the lakes always empty, the mountains always flat and the rivers always still? (Answer: A map)
    
15. 
    Rich people want it, poor people have it, and if you eat it, you die. What is it? (Answer: Nothing)
    
16. 
    What is the only English word with three sets of double letters? (Answer: Bookkeeper)
    
17. 
    When is four half of five? (Answer: When it's in Roman numerals — the letters IV are half of the word "five")
    
18. 
    What color is snow? What color are clouds? What color is a polar bear? What do cows drink? (Answer: Water, not milk, which may be on your mind after answering "white" to the previous questions)
    
19. 
    A man looks at a painting and says, “Brothers and sisters I have none, but that man’s father is my father’s son.” Who is in the painting? (Answer: His son)
    
20. 
    Steve, Elizabeth and George are drinking coffee. Paul, Lewis and Melissa are drinking tea. Which will Helen drink? (Answer: Coffee — she has two E's in her name, just like all the coffee drinkers)
    
21. 
    The healthier you are, the bigger I get. The bigger I get, the more I'm hated. What am I? (Answer: Age)
    

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