Riddles to ponder about

1. The man who invented it does not want it!
The man who bought it does not want it!
The man who needs it does not know it!
What is it???

2. What can catch but cannot throw???

3. What is black, white and red all over???

4. What goes around the world but stays in a corner???

5. Give me food and I will live; Give me water and I will die.
What am I???

6. No sooner spoken than broken. What is it?

7. I'm the part of the bird that's not in the sky.
I can swim in the ocean and yet remain dry.
What am I?

8. I am mother and father, but never birth or nurse.
I'm rarely still, but I never wander.
What am I?