Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 10, 2017

Early to rise and Early to bed,Makes a man healthy, but socially dead.

If you repeat something enough times, people start to believe it.

Franklin probably never went to bed early in his entire life.

From what has been written about him in the past several decades, not alone at least.

and how much of “the comics” is just to meet deadlines

Oh NOoooo o o …. daylight savings time starts Sunday

Early to bed, Early to rise starts enforcing itself the older I get. But I don’t mind – I’ve always been a ‘sunrise’ kind of person!

Early to bed, early to rise means you don’t get to run video game dungeons with team mates in later time zones

As with many aphorisms, the converse is more interesting: Late to bed and late to rise makes you sick, poor, and stupid.

“Early to bed and early to rise/Makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.” —Mazer Rackham, written by Orson Scott Card

Early to bed depends on how you set your clock.

“Early to bed and early to rise is for the birds and uncivilized.”

Some history, most of those were created to full the space on a page back in the days of hand set type, and continued into the time of offset presses (see Readers Digest back in the last century). If a story was to long to fit you could edit (cut) it to fit. BUT if it was a little to short, you couldn’t always add more to it. Hence the use of a short pithy saying or trivia, or odd facts to fill the space. Usually at the bottom of the story/page.