Riddle #52

Poor people have it. Rich people need it. If you eat it you die. What is it?

I don't have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I'm white and empty.

What room do ghosts avoid?

Each morning I appear to lie at your feet. All day I will follow no matter how fast you run, yet I nearly perish in the midday sun.

What man cannot live inside a house?

What can run but can't walk?

Two girls ate dinner together. They both ordered iced tea. One girl drank them very fast and had finished five in the time it took the other to drink just one. The girl who drank one died while the other survived. All of the drinks were poisoned. How is that possible?

I am alive without breath and cold as death. I am never thirsty but always drinking. What am I?

I always come down and never ever go up? Think, think and think! We all just love it.

I get whiter the dirtier I get. What am I?

A woman shoots her husband, then holds him under water for five minutes. A little while later, they both go out and enjoy a wonderful dinner together. How can this be?