one hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after
one hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after
Sleep before midnight is more rejuvenating than sleep after midnight. The phrase encourages going to sleep at an early hour. No matter how often I tell my son that one hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after, he still stays up too late playing video games. I've really noticed a difference in the quality of my sleep since I started going to bed earlier. It must be true that one hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after!
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- go to sleep
- fox's sleep
- lose sleep about (someone or something)
- got to go home and get my beauty sleep
- (I've) got to go home and get my beauty sleep
- beauty
- kip down
- a wink of sleep
- beauty sleep
- get (one's) beauty sleep