This document contains riddles with their answers, quotes about patience, and a short story about stoves and stairs. The riddles include an echo, men taking pears, a blink of an eye, a window, and a baby. The quotes emphasize having patience and that patience achieves more than strength or fury. The short story is about lighting a match to light stoves but there being no stairs in a one-story house.

1. 46) You heard me before,
Yet you hear me again.
Then I die, 'Til you call me again
What am I?
47) Ten pears hanging high,
Ten men come passing by,
Each took a pear and left nine hanging there.
How could that be?
48) I'm so fast you can't see me,
Though everyone sees straight through me,
I don't stop until the day you die. What am I?
49) Almost everyone sees me without noticing me,
For what is beyond is what he or she seeks.
What am I?
50) I can be created by humans,
But they cannot control me.
I suck on wood, paper and flesh alike.
I can be more of a hindrance than help at times.
To my creators, I seem to be everywhere at once.
What am I?
51) You have three stoves: a gas stove, a wood stove, and a
coal stove, but only one match. Which should you light
first?
52) You live in a one story house made "entirely of
redwood". What color would the stairs be?

2. ANSWERS TO CREATIVE TEASERS 7
46) An Echo
47) EACH is the name of one of the men, and he's the only one
that took a pear
48) A Blink of an Eye
49) A Window
50) A Baby
51) The match
52) What stairs...you live in a "one story house".
Quotes To Live By 7
1. "All things come round to him who will but wait."
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2. "Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day
be beneficial.”
Ovid
3. "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
Author: Phaedrus
4. "Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is
concentrated strength."
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
5. "Patience and passage of time do more than strength and
fury."
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
6. "Our patience will achieve more than our force."
Author: Edmund Burke
7. "He that can have patience can have what he will."
Author: Benjamin Franklin
8. “Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately
where one has sown.”
Author : Soren Kierkegaard
9. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Author : Helen Keller