one hour’s sleep before midnight is worth two after
- one hour’s sleep before midnight is worth two after
1640 G. HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 882 One houres sleepe before midnight is worth three after.
1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 37 One hours sleep before midnight’s worth two hours after.
1829 COBBETT Advice to Young Men I. xxxviii. It is said by the country-people that one hour’s sleep before midnight is worth more than two are worth after midnight; and this I believe to be a fact.
1937 A. THIRKELL Summer Half iii. Now, Mr. Winter, remember my boys when you come up! Every hour’s sleep before twelve is worth two afterwards, you know.
2002 Times 16 Feb. 26 Some maintain that ‘An hour before midnight is worth two after it’, which is utter nonsense because, as everyone knows: Early to bed, early to rise, Makes a man surly, and gives him red eyes.
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