General Riddles

What belongs to you but others use it more than you do?
Your Name

He has married many women, but has never been married. Who is he?
A priest.

There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. How do they manage to smoke?
They throw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.

Sometimes I am bigger than you and sometimes I am smaller than you. Sometimes I follow you and sometimes you follow me. I don't have any weight. Who am I?
Your shadow

Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of bricks?
Neither, they both weigh one pound.

Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with an anagram: Almost a _________ started between two brothers to decide who will use their father's _________.
battle and tablet.

What has a head and a tail, but no body?

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

Only one color, but not one size, Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies, Present in sun, but not in rain, Doing no harm, and feeling no pain. What am I?
A shadow.

I have four sides. Anyone can calculate my area if they come to know the length of any one side of mine. I have four right angles within me. Which shape am I?

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