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Basically, I am a night owl. My wife is an early bird, so she goes to bed around 9:30, and my kids are in bed about 8. So, if I am home, I will usually start writing about 9:30 and go till about 12:30 or 1:30, depending on what my energy level is.
Oct 1, 2025
The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.
I don't mind being 65, but nobody is gonna tell me to come in at 5:30 to have the early bird special.
The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.
You cannot teach an old dog new tricks
I'm not an early bird at all. Ideally, on Saturday morning I'd allow myself a lovely lie-in. 10:45 would be just right.
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.
The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.
There is no time like the present.
The early bird gets the worm, the rest starve.
The early bird might catch the worm, but I bet it also needs a ton of under eye concealer
If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.
I am both a night owl and an early bird. So I am wise and I have worms.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
The second mouse gets the cheese!
He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.
Early bird Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early bird— But if you’re a worm, sleep late.
U2 and folks like that. They all have that similar drive and that belief in themselves. They're early birds ... they're up working when everyone else is sleeping. They're simply all great at what they do.
Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can -- unless, of course, you happen to be a worm.
Late birds get worms while early birds get tired.
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.
I am not an early bird. I go to bed normally between midnight and 1 oclock, so it is understandable that I cannot be an early bird. I wake up around 9 oclock.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
The early bird catches the worm.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.
actions speak louder than words
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
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