General Riddles

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

Why did the boy go to his bedroom with a pencil?
He wanted to draw the curtains.

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The letter "M"

A ladder hangs over the side of a ship anchored in a port. The bottom rung touches the water. The distance between rungs is 20 cm and the length of the ladder is 180 cm. The tide is rising at the rate of 15 cm each hour. When will the water reach the seventh rung from the top?
If the tide is raising water, then it is raising the ship on water, too. So water will reach still the first rung.

Which time of a day when written in capital letters reads the same from all the four sides?

I am an English word. I have three consecutive double letters. Who am I?
Bookkeeper

I am in the beginning of sorrow and sadness. You will find me in happiness also. You will find me in sun and stars but not in moon. I am in summer and spring but not in fall or winter. Who am I?
The alphabet S.

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

When can you make the following equation correct? 14+1=3
In a clock when we add 14hrs and 1hr we get 15hrs i.e. 3 o'clock

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