One

   

      age         Maurice        age
               +           =  Antoinette  +  Maurice bars
   Antoinette      large        large
   

Antoinette was under age
And Maurice was over large
Now,
Young Antoinette is over large
And Maurice is behind bars
.

We are five little creatures,
Each with different features,
One of us is set in glass,
Another can be found in a bet fairly fast,
One can be found while molding tin,
And the fourth is boxed within.
If the last you should pursue,
It can never fly from you.

Vowels

I can talk about roses. I can talk about rocks.
I can talk about basilisks, candles, and locks.
I can talk about most things like laughter, and pain.
The one thing I can't say, that you, sir, must name.

Then a hint:
Forget about roses. Forget about rocks.
Forget about basilisks, candles, and locks.
Forget about those things like laughter, and pain.
One thing still I can't say, and that you must now name.

The answer

What good fellow is most desired to be mated, but can not mate himself.

Your opponent's king in a game of chess.

Joan yelled 'sex' as she stood at the baq.
She was crazy but sharp as a taq.
We all know this is masking
That you should be asking
If all's written or if there's some laq.

The letter 'v'

A friend of mine did resolve to buy that which had neither top nor bottom
but which could hold flesh, blood, and bones. His lady would have it and ,
will he nill he, it would be had

A wedding ring

What is it that goes up the chimney down but not down the chimney up?

An umbrella

What good has mortal man found on earth that God can never find?

A worthy master.

What every man prefers to life,
Fears more than death or deadly strife,
What the contented man deserves,
The poor man has, the rich man requires,
The miser spends, the spendthrift saves,
And all men carry to their graves.

Nothing

What is greater that God
More evil than the Devil
The rich want it
The poor have it
And if you eat it, you die, slowly.

Nothing

My first two letters are a man, my first three a woman, my first four a brave man, my whole a brave woman.

Heroine

I went to the wood, and I caught it;
Then I sat me down and sought it;
The longer I sought For what I had caught,
The less worth catching I thought it;
I would rather have sold than bought it.
And when I had sought
without finding aught
Home in my hand I brought it.

Thorn or splinter

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but not once in a thousand
years?

The letter 'm'

The more you take, the more you leave behind.

Foot steps

When one does not know what it is, then it is something; but when one does know, then it is nothing.

A secret

The man who made it did not want it;
The man who bought it did not use it;
The man who used it did not know it.

A coffin

What has four legs and only one foot?

A bed

Take away my first letter and I remain unchanged; take away my second
letter and I remain unchanged; take away my third letter and I remain
unchanged; take away all my letters and still I remain exactly the same.

A postman

A certain thing liveth in a place néere at hande,
Whose nature is straunge, if it bée well scand:
It sées without eyes, it flyes without winges,
It runnes without feete, it workes woundous things.
To places far distant it often doth rome:
Yet never departeth, yet taryes at home.
If thou doe it covet to féele or to sée
Thy labour is lost, for this never shall bée.

The mind

What we caught we threw away, what we could not catch we kept.

Lice

What is it you will break even if you name it?

Silence

What is it that belongs to you, but others use it more than you?

Your name

What ist that goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon,
and three legs at night?

Man

Tell me where in the world is the sky no more than three yards wide

At the bottom of a well

There is a thing I cannot say
And you, as well, will feel this way.
For Truth demands the honest words
Yet must condemn you if they're heard.
The words are four: the first is me,
The second two deny, you see.
The fourth sounds like the back of yes
But speak them all, and do not guess,
The answers there, I'm sure you see,
Well spoken they can never be.
Name the answer now outloud
And though you're wrong I'm sure you're proud.

I do not know.