Bonus points if it’s usually misused/misunderstood by the people who say it

  • Resol van Lemmy
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    139 months ago

    “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”

    You do realise that people who are awake during the night are of equal importance, who’s gonna run those power plants and radio stations and petrol service stations and police forces and whatever else? If they shut off during the night, there’d be chaos. At least a chaos that most folks won’t see because they’re asleep or something.

    • @[email protected]
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      69 months ago

      You realize that “important” is a different word not appearing in the set of “healthy, wealthy, and wise” right?

      • Resol van Lemmy
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        19 months ago

        I’m probably guessing that SOME night people are healthy, wealthy and wise. Huge emphasis on the word “some”.

    • @glnpf148
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      9 months ago

      To be fair: The people messing up their bio rhythms doing night shift after night shift might not necessarily be considered ‘healthy’.

    • @ManosTheHandsOfFate
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      59 months ago

      I suspect that this one comes from a time when society was much more agrarian.