I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The early bird catches the worm.
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death.
God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.
Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.
The early bird may get the worm, but its the second mouse that gets the cheese.