General Riddles

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

Two lawyers were fighting against each other in a case in a courtroom. One of them is the father of the other's son. How are they related?
They are husband and wife.

You can find me in the middle of each month in all the countries. You can always find me only in the night but never in the day.
The alphabet "N".

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

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

Complete the sentence using two words, which are anagrams. The man with the _______ wanted to have _______.
The man with the beard wanted to have bread.

Does the government of Texas permit a man to marry his widow's sister?
No question of legitimacy, because the man is already dead!

People use me to keep themselves clean. I get slimmer whenever I do some work. After my workout is over people need water. Who am I?
A bar of soap.

A headless man had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word; And deaf was he who listened and heard. Solve this riddle.
The letter in question is the letter "O". It is zero. The man had nothing to write. The blind could read nothing. The person who was dumb could repeat nothing. The deaf man listened and heard nothing.

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

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