Short Riddles and Answers

Question: Two brothers are twins. One twin says he is older than the other. The other twin is confused and says: in order for us to be twins we have to born on the same day. How is the one twin older than the other?

Question: When my first is a task to a young girl of spirit,
And my second confines her to finish the piece,
How hard is her fate! But how great is her merit
If by taking my whole she effects her release!

Question: Thousands of orphans who lost their old home,
found by others who have lost their own.
To hide a secret that is obvious to all,
becomes even more obvious when the host falls.

What am I?

Question: In a town their is a barber who cuts everybody in the town's hair. But nobody in the town cuts their own hair. Yet the barbers always has beautifully kept and full hair.

Who cuts the barber's hair?

Question: A shrimping boat is at the docks with a lifeboat hanging off the side 5 meters above the water. If the tides rise at a rate of 1.5 meters per hour, how long would it take for the water to reach the lifeboat.