Riddles

4. The poor have it. The rich need it. If you eat it, you will eventually die. What is it?
9. What has a foot on each side and one in the middle?
10. The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
11. What is more useful when it is broken?
12. What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, And yet never grows?
13. A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
14. What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats?

1. I am tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. I can brighten your day, unless it's windy. What am I?
2. What has many keys, but can't open a single door?
3. What is black when you buy it, red when you use it, and gray when you throw it away?
5. Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.
6. Brothers and Sisters I have none. But this man's father is my father's son.
7. What is so delicate that even saying its name will break it?
8. What travels around the world but stays in one corner?
10. I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?