Best riddles

If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples and three oranges in the other hand, what would you have?

Why do Chinese men eat more rice than Japanese men do?

The thunder comes before the lightning; the lightning comes before the clouds. The rain dries everything it touches. What am I?

Never trust this fellow’s grin. His teeth are sharp and course, his blood’s as cold as icicles, and he’ll show no remorse! What is it?

A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of £50 notes out of his wallet. He turns to the rich man and says to him, 'I have an amazing talent; I know almost every song that has ever existed.' The rich man laughs. The poor man says, 'I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it.' The rich man laughs again and says, 'OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?' The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich. What song did he sing?

A man was found dead with a cassette recorder in one hand and a gun in the other. When the police came in, they immediately pressed the play button on the cassette. He said "I have nothing else to live for. I can't go on," then the sound of a gunshot. After listening to the cassette tape, the police knew that it was not a suicide, but a homicide. How did they know?

A girl is sitting in a house at night that has no lights on at all. There is no lamp, no candle, nothing. Yet she is reading. How?

What do you get when you drop a pumpkin?

This very thing you were born with pleases us all. It's even capable of making men fall, while only experienced by few it's treasured by all.

If you see a bird sitting on a twig, how could you get the twig without disturbing the bird?