early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)

Idioms and Phrases

Prudent habits pay off, as in With final exams coming, you'd best remember, early to bed and early to rise . This ancient rhyming proverb, so familiar that it is often abbreviated as in the example, was long ascribed to Benjamin Franklin, who quoted it in this form in Poor Richard's Almanack . However, slightly different versions existed in English in the mid-1400s and in Latin even earlier.