
“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”
Source: [Howell, James, Epistolae Ho-Elianae, https://books.google.com/books?id=v79CAAAAcAAJ&q=%22till%20noon%22, Google Books, 1655 Edition, 20 September 2016]
“Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.”
“Lucky Australians! They can go on sleeping for another seven hours and stil pass as early risers.”
Ooh! La-La!
“2788. If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.”
Source: Ivanhoe (1819), Ch. 17, One of the verses of the ballad "The Barefooted Friar", sung by Friar Tuck to the Black Knight.
“4749. The Sluggard makes his Night till Noon.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Successful women don't sleep until noon.”
Source: Being Elizabeth
“Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.”
Of Fame.
The Holy State and the Profane State (1642)
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 41