Quotes & Sayings About Early To Bed Early To Rise

Ben Franklin said:
"Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy wealthy and wise"
Lately I have read the advice given to William Randolph Hearst, when a young man, by his father:
"Go downtown at noon and rob the other fellows of what they have made during the morning. — E. Haldeman-Julius

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing." — William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

Long live the elite rower's motto:'early to bed, early to rise, never meet the regular guys.' — Brad Alan Lewis

Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success. — Arthur Miller

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people. — George Ade

Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun. — Thomas Jefferson

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people. — George Ade

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. — Benjamin Franklin

I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good. — Samuel Johnson

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead, — Terry Pratchett

Franklin said once in one of his inspired flights of malignity
Early to bed and early to rise
Make a man healthy and wealth and wise.
As if it were any object to a boy to be healthy and wealthy and wise on such terms. — Mark Twain

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't. — Steven Conrad

Because the dog was after her, Poor Cat Fright. As I was going up Pippin Hill, Pippin Hill was dirty, There I met a pretty miss, And she dropped me a curtsey. Early to bed, and early to rise, Is the way to be healthy, wealthy, and wise. Old woman, old woman, shall we go a-shearing? Speak a little louder, sir, I am very thick o' hearing. Old woman, old woman, shall I kiss you dearly? Thank you, kind sir, I hear very clearly. The Cuckoo's a bonny bird, She sings as she flies, She brings us good tidings, And tells us no lies. She sucks little birds' eggs, To make her voice clear, And never cries "Cuckoo!" Till spring-time of the year. — Harrison Weir

I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time. — Lemony Snicket

Adequate early rest is best ... "Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel. — Ezra Taft Benson

Late to bed and early to rise... makes a man sleepy and rubbing this eyes — Shane D. Williams

Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. — John Ciardi

The discipline to rise early is not as difficult as the discipline of going to bed. This did not used to be so. Before electricity and radio and television and the Internet, going to bed soon after dark was not so difficult. There was not much to do. Today the strongest allurements to stay up and be entertained are against us. Therefore, the battle against weariness, which makes us drowsy as soon as we open our Bible in the morning, has to be fought in the evening, not just in the morning. — John Piper

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes. — Orson Scott Card

Generals were early to bed, early to rise, always brushing their teeth after every meal, never skipping a morning shave. All they had to do was sit back in Nagano drawing up their battle plans. One order from them and us mortals on the front lines would move like pawns across a chessboard to our grisly fates. I'd like to see just one of them here with us in the mud. We had our own rules down here. Which is probably why they stayed away. If one of them showed, I'd see to it a stray bullet put them on the Killed In Action list. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness. — Richard Rodriguez

There was once a merchant. An eager, industrious young man. His business ... required him to rise early and thus to bed early. But one evening ... he stayed awake past his usual hour ... and in so doing he heard the wondrous singing of something he'd never heard before: a nightbird. The next night, he managed to stay awake later ... to hear more of the bird's song. And the following night. He became so ... so intoxicated with the nightbird's voice that he thought only of it during the day. Came the time when he spent all the night listening to that song. Could not carry out his business during the sunlit hours. Soon he turned his back altogether on the day, and gave himself over to the nightbird's beautiful voice ... much to the sad end of his career, his health ... eventually his life. — Anonymous

I counsel our children to do their critical studying in the early hours of the morning when they're fresh and alert, rather than to fight physical weariness and mental exhaustion at night. I've learned the power of the dictum, "Early to bed, early to rise." When I'm under pressure, you won't find me burning the midnight oil. I'd much rather be in bed early and getting up in the wee hours of the morning ... — Boyd K. Packer

Early to bed, early to rise," Ziggy said. "Early or late, — Brandon Mull

my father always said, "early to bed and
early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy
and wise."

it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house
and we were up at dawn to the smell of
coffee, frying bacon and scrambled
eggs.

my father followed this general routine
for a lifetime and died young, broke,
and, I think, not too
wise.

taking note, I rejected his advice and it
became, for me, late to bed and late
to rise.

now, I'm not saying that I've conquered
the world but I've avoided
numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some
common pitfalls
and have met some strange, wonderful
people

one of whom
was
myself - someone my father
never
knew. — Charles Bukowski

Early to rise,
early to bed.
A proverb worth following
until one is dead. — Ashwin Sanghi

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy and wise if it don't make him wealthy. — Dick King-Smith

God, bless the world and all that is therein.God, bless my spouse and my children,God, bless the eye that is in my head,And bless, God, the handling of my hand,What time I rise in the morning early,What time I lie down late in bed, Bless my rising in the morning early, And my lying down late in bed. — Anonymous

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy, wealthy, and dead. — James Thurber