A Quote by Ed Bliss

Since the early bird catches the worm, it's a good idea to begin your day as soon as you can -- unless, of course, you happen to be a worm.

Ed Bliss

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Ed Bliss
American - Journalist
July 30, 1912 - November 25, 2002

Early bird Oh, if you’re a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you’re a bird, be an early bird— But if you’re a worm, sleep late.

Shel Silverstein

The early bird catches the worm. But I have never been one for worms. I am not sure what the late bird catches, but I will feast with him today. Probably porridge.

Donald Miller

Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Early bird gets the worm, but the second worm gets to live. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Edgar Bergen

The early bird catches the worm.

William Camden

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.

Jim Carrey

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.

Mark Twain

The early bird gets the worm but the late bird doesn't even get the late worm.

Charles M. Schulz

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

Cynthia Kenyon

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

Norman Ralph Augustine

If you're a bird, be an early bird. But if you're a worm, sleep late.

Shel Silverstein

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I sometimes think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The early worm deserves the bird.

Robert A. Heinlein

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!