General Riddles

The more you take, the more you leave behind. What am I?
Footsteps

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

If there are 8 chocolates and you take away 5, how many do you have?
5 of course. If you take 5, what else do you expect to have?

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

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

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

A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid.

Decode the following message: AENDFNDFNNIRDERDESIIEIIEAEND
A friend in need is a friend indeed. Explanation: Write the alphabets in four rows for example:

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be?
The two babies are two of a set of triplets.

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