A riddle in rhyme: What does a man love more than life /Fear more than death or mortal strife / What the poor have, the rich require /And what contented men desire / What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves/ And all men carry to their graves? This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “What All Men Carry Riddle”
Here’s another brain-busting riddle. You ready, Grant?
All right.
Okay, listen up.
What does man love more than life, fear more than death or mortal strife?
What the poor have, the rich require, and what contented men desire,
What the miser spends and the spendthrift saves and all men carry to their graves.
Oh, I feel like I’ve heard this one, but I don’t remember the answer.
What does man love more than life, fear more than death, or mortal strife?
I don’t know.
The answer is nothing.
Plug in nothing to all of that and it works.
It works.
Can’t carry nothing to your grave, right?
That’s true.
