What walks on four legs in the moning and two legs in the afternoon and three legs in the evening?
2006-09-05 00:42:37 · 13 answers · asked by pete 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
a baby is crawling in the morning, a man is walking in the afternoon and an old man walking with a stick in the evening....................
2006-09-05 01:16:47 · answer #1 · answered by ash 1412 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is also known as the Riddle of the Sphinx, and as your previous answers have concurred, the answer is Man.
Man crawls at birth (Morning), Walks upright during the majority of adulthood (Afternoon), and walks with a cane (the third leg) when old (evening).
2006-09-05 00:55:26 · answer #2 · answered by Jatznic 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
A man, who crawls on all fours as a baby, walks on two legs as an adult, and walks with a cane in old age.
Of course morning, noon, and night are metaphors for the times in a man's (person's) life. Such metaphors are common in riddles. There were two Thebes, apparently this Thebes was the one in Greece. And this Sphinx was apparently not the one at Giza, in Egypt.
2006-09-05 00:54:01 · answer #3 · answered by funky_dude 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People. The times of the day refer to stages in life... 4 is a baby crawling, 2 is most of our lives, 3 is an oldster with a cane.
2006-09-05 02:03:40 · answer #4 · answered by MotherBear1975 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man.
2006-09-05 00:44:43 · answer #5 · answered by smci 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
man
2006-09-05 01:28:14 · answer #6 · answered by cerebral_orgasm 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
man
2006-09-05 00:45:16 · answer #7 · answered by chris c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
man
2006-09-05 00:44:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
alright, everybody's given you your answer, there you go
2006-09-05 01:49:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You!
2006-09-05 00:53:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋