I wanted to sing, "Morning is breaking, like the first morning," but I respected the slumbering. We were driving east and as we came over a hill, there was the biggest, brightest sunrise ever in creation. Getting an early start on a long trip, Raquel and I were driving in the dark. He wrote: "Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising as set forth by that infatuated Franklin." To him, getting any benefit from early rising was a joke. Mark Twain was quite a bright fellow himself. "That's not gold, that's morning breath." He came back with, "the early morning has gold in its mouth." My life companion wouldn't hesitate on that one. The night owl has his own verse for that one: "Early to bed, early to rise and your girl goes out with other guys."īut Franklin didn't give up easily. That seems neither healthy nor wise to me, and has nothing whatsoever to do with wealth.
The early bird gets the worm but the late bird windows#
In his popular Poor Richard's Almanac, Franklin wrote, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise." Franklin was obviously a bright fellow, but you may recall he had the early morning habit of taking a bath then sitting naked to dry with the windows open in the dead of winter.
What the early bird is getting is yesterday's left-over, stale worms."ĭoes the early bird really get the worm? Benjamin Franklin, who wrote a book titled Early to Rise, seemed to think so. Early bird catches more than just the worm. At the coffee stop and on the way to work, I encountered flocks of "early birds." We've all heard it a thousand times: "The early bird gets the worm." But for every statement that an early riser makes in praise of his own early morning habits, a night owl has an answer - like "even worms don't get up early. Compared with early birds, late risers are more likely to be cuckolded, a group of international researchers has found. I stopped on the way and picked up a quick coffee to go. I got up and hustled to work this morning an hour and a half earlier than my usual time, to take care of a pile of unfinished business.
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