1. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
2. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
3. All that glitters isn't gold.
4. Too many cooks spoil the pot.
5. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
6. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
7. All work and no play makes John a dull boy.
8. When the cat is away, the mice will play.
9. A fool and his money is soon parted.
10. Necessity is the mother of all invention.
11. Charity begins a home.
12. A watch pot never boils over.
13. Out of sight, out of mind.
14. Look before you leap.
15. M and M's melt in your mouth, not in your hand.
Answers to Riddles
1. An ear of corn.
2.The letter E
3. The word SHORT
4. It was a coin.
5. They weren't playing chess with each other.
6. The word AND
7. 21. Most people would say 42 handshakes, but when A shakes hands with B, B has already shaken hands with A and need not do it again.
8. A wedding ring.
9. Heroine: He, Her, Hero, Heroine
10.At that moment, the time and day could be written as, 12:34,5/6/78
11. Thursday
12.Mount Everest
13.The word TON
14.He can only run halfway before he begins to run out.
15. The letter M
16. All the men were married.
17. The desert is a region so arid that it supports little or no vegetation. Many areas of the far north are also considered deserts, which is where the man made his 10 day crossing. He survived by eating snow and ice.
18. He was a priest
19. 5 + 5 + 5 = 550 = 545 + 5 = 550 (add a diagnal line to one of the plusses to make it a 4)
20. Turn one light switch on, turn one on for 5 minutes and turn it off, leave off. Go upstairs. The first switch belongs to the bulb that's lit, the second, to the bulb that is warm, the third, to the bulb that is off.