What is greater than God,
More evil than the devil,
The poor have it,
The rich need it,
And if you eat it, you'll die?

Ravi Raja has submitted a different version of this problem, which is pretty cool. Since we can't have it as a separate problem, here it is:

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?

Posted by levik on 2003-02-03 02:15:05