Quotes About Early Rising

#1. But blast the man, with curses loud and deep, Whate'er the rascal's name, or age, or station, Who first invented, and went round advising, That artificial cut-off, Early Rising!

John Godfrey Saxe

#2. Nature, not yet polluted by human beings, hence his early rising.

Thomas Bernhard

#3. I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits and iron industry are impregnable to the assaults of all ill-luck that fools ever dreamed.

Joseph Addison

#4. Once you start trying to make life simple, it's not simple anymore.

Marty Rubin

#5. The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#6. I don't like tofu. I'd sooner eat a sponge.

Sylvia Browne

#7. Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

Khalil Gibran

#9. I like the lad who, when his father thought To clip his morning nap by hackneyed phrase Of vagrant worm by early songster caught, Cried, Served him right! it's not at all surprising; The worm was punished, sir, for early rising!

John Godfrey Saxe

#10. Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Jim Barksdale

#11. Each night we watched the sun set no matter where we were, and we'd wake up early to witness it rising again. That was the thing about life: even when the days faded to black, you were always given another chance. A second moment to try again to rise from the ashes.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#12. Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

Gautama Buddha

#13. I think Christ has recommended rising early in the morning by his rising from the grave very early.

Jonathan Edwards

#14. I don't know a critic who penetrates the center of anything.

Arthur Miller

#15. Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same time, but increases also the measure.

Charles Caleb Colton

#16. Sir, yes, sir!' Tyler jumps up mock-saluting. 'I love when you get bossy, it's kind of adorable

Kiersten White

#17. Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin ...

Mark Twain

#18. My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

Samuel Johnson

#19. Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. Early rising is also essential to the good government of a family. A late breakfast deranges the whole business of the day, and throws a portion of it on the next, which opens the door for confusion to enter.

Mary Randolph

#21. Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them.

George Ayittey

#22. Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what's left sound natural.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#23. Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

John Todd

#24. To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

Ernie J Zelinski

#25. The early morning has gold in its mouth.

Benjamin Franklin

#26. Above literature?' said the Queen. 'Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Alan Bennett

#27. How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Charles Spurgeon

#28. Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking's just the measure.

Francois Rabelais

#29. I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight.

Karl Philipp Moritz

#30. An optimistic early-rising whore with red lips and red boots sauntered along, smiling hopefully at middle-aged men, but there were no takers at this hour.

Ken Follett

#31. Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained his noon.

Robert Herrick

#32. With offices in 64 cities around the world, it is sometimes a challenge to ensure that I've got my finger on the pulse with every one, everywhere. Staying in touch means early rising for calls with China and Japan, and late calls with the U.S.

Ben Elliot

#33. Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.

Alexandre Dumas

#34. Gabriel Walsh comes from a long line of hustlers. He's just the first one to go to law school and get a license for it.

Kelley Armstrong

#35. I could not believe in the joyous morning bound. It was disbelief well-founded: thirty-five years between then and now, and while I rise punctually I do so grudgingly; each morning brings its own renewal of the battle....

Edwin O'Connor

#36. He disdains such cowardly acts as looking in wing mirrors or using his indicators. His Ambassador is his chariot, his klaxon his sword. Weaving into the oncoming traffic, playing 'chicken' with the other taxis, Balvinder Singh is a Raja of the Road.

William Dalrymple

#37. An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#38. A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.

Aristophanes

#39. don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous. Clothilde

F Scott Fitzgerald

#40. I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#41. From this close, she could see the color of his eyes perfectly. They were a misty, shifting blue marbled with gray, like smoke rising through an early morning sky.

Maureen Johnson

#42. Heaven's help is better than early rising.

Miguel De Cervantes