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What is the center of gravity?

The letter V.

Riddles

What is the difference between a farmer and a seamstress?

One gathers what he 'sows', the other 'sews' what she gathers.

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What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?

A yardstick.

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What is the difference between an oak tree and a tight shoe?

One makes acorns, the other makes corns ache.

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What is the longest word in the English language?

Smiles. (There a mile between the first and last letter. )

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What has no beginning, end or middle and touches every continent?

The ocean

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What is the moon worth?

A dollar (because it has four quarters. )

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What has no beginning, end, or middle?

A doughnut.

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What is the only 6-letter word in the English language that gives you 12 when you take away 1?

Dozens.

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What is always before you, yet you can never see it?

Your future.

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What is the smallest bridge in the world?

The bridge of your nose.

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What is always coming but never truly arrives?

Tomorrow.

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What kind of coat can be put on only when wet?

A coat of paint.

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What kind of nut has no shell?

A doughnut.

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Man walks over,
Man walks under.
In time of war he burns asunder.
What is it?

A bridge.

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You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again,
Then I die,
'Till you call me again.
What am I?

An echo.

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Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today.

Proverbs and old sayings British

No rose without a thorn, or a love without a rival.

Proverbs and old sayings British about love