The early bird catches the worm

Cultural  

1. If we want to achieve our goal, we must get an early start.

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Example Sentences

The early bird catches the worm, but the late bird catches the diabolo.

From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)

Another of these nature proverbs, and one which has exasperated many a late riser, is, "The early bird catches the worm."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by O'Neill, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman)

We had a little song that went like this: Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. and The early bird catches the worm.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration

The early bird catches the worm, and V. E. Geiger and Wm.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

This, possibly, is the Bornese version of our own proverb, "The early bird catches the worm."

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace