General Riddles

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

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 is the beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the start of every end, and the end of every race?
The letter 'E'.

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

Mr. & Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. Mrs. Smith has 5 sons and each son has a sister who has 5 daughters each of whom have 1 brother each. How many of them went for the picnic?
2 people. Explanation: The puzzle only says that Mr. and Mrs. Smith went for a picnic. It does not say that the others accompanied them.

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

What has an eye but can not see?

First, you kill me with a knife and then you chop me in anger. Then you cry beside me. Who am I?

The more I am present, the less you can see. Who am I?
Darkness.

How can you drop an egg on a floor 20 yards below, without cracking it?
The floor will not crack by the dropping of an egg on it!

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