Riddles

naina23

21. Until I am measured,
I am not known.
Yet how you miss me,
When I have flown!
What am I?





22. What does man love more than life?
Fear more than death or mortal strife?
What do the poor have, what the rich require,
And what contented men desire?
What does the miser spend, the spendthrift save,
And all men carry to their graves?





23. I stand when I'm sitting, and jump when I'm walking. Who am I?




24. A certain five letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it. What is the word?





25. How long is the answer to this question.

metac

21. Time?

soothsayer

21-time, 22-nothing, 23-kangaroo 24-short 25- how long

xbmcmu

time

wangwilly

22. Greed ?