“Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
"The Shrike and the Chipmunks", The New Yorker (18 February 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Because it is derived from Benjamin Franklin's famous saying this is often misquoted as: Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. ”
“6080. Early to go to Bed, and early to rise,
Will make a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1735) : Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
True Bills http://books.google.com/books?id=aZ4VAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Early+to+Bed+and+Early+to+Rise+is+a+Bad+Rule+for+any+one+who+wishes+to+become+acquainted+with+our+most+Prominent+and+Influential+People%22&pg=PA153#v=onepage (1904)
“I like go to bed and get up early; in that, I am anti-Spanish.”
Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
“Heaven's help is better than early rising.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 34.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”
Adventures in Czarist Russia.
