Good Riddles

Question: If you count 20 houses on your right going to the store and 20 houses on your left coming home, how many houses did you count?

Question: Though I live beneath a roof,
I never seem to dry.
If you will only hold me,
I swear I will not lie.

What am I?

Question: A pet shop owner had a parrot with a sign on its cage that said "Parrot repeats everything it hears." A young man bought the parrot and for two weeks he spoke to it but it didn't say a word. He tried to return the parrot but the shopkeeper said he never lied.

How can this be?

Question: I can be half without getting thinner.
I can shine with no fire.
I can be hidden but never taken.
I can stay dry while moving the ocean.

What am I?

Question: It is able, but not capable.
It can stop, but not go.
It is dead, but not yet perished.
It's a ghost, but not paranormal.

Is it high, or is it low?