General Riddles

I have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?
Envelope

How can you write 23 using the number 2 only 4 times? You can use addition, subtraction, division, multiplication.

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

How many of each species did Moses take on the ark with him?
None, Moses wasn't on the ark Noah was.

End always begins with me. Time, space and universe always end with me. Who am I?
The letter 'E'.

Spell eighty using only two alphabets.

Two children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week, paused on their way to school to straighten matters out. "When the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today' will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day before yesterday was tomorrow!" On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had started on their way to school on Sunday morning!

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

7. I have three letters. I read the same forward and backwards. I know you'll get the answer, I know you'll see. It's a word that is important to you and me. What word am I?

Let us imagine that you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth. Now on the eastern side of that point is an island and on the western side of that point is a lake. Which one is closer to you - the island or the lake - and why?
Neither of the two because when you are standing at the southern-most point of the earth, all directions are north.

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