After a few hundred years, it's time to update a meme

[Cyrano]

The TV camera is mightier than the sword.

But, like the pen, that "mightier" can be used for good, evil, mindlessness, mental doodles, or meaningless nothings.

There are probably many other century-old memes that could also use updating. Do you have one or two?

[Newest Reality]

1. Ah,

A hundred dollars saved is a hundred dollars earned?

An ounce of antibiotics is worth a pound of healthcare?

A text in time saves nine?

[Cyrano]

3. Good ones

[Aristus]

7. Except for the one about antibiotics.

Antibiotics are healthcare.

It's not something you take in lieu of going to the clinic for evaluation.

In some countries, they're available over the counter; thank God one needs a prescription to get them here in the US. I've lost count of the number of people who come in with the common cold, and demand antibiotics (which don't treat a virus) instead of appropriate symptomatic treatment.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. Oh, the metonymy! NT

[Cyrano]

4. Had to look that one up

But do you have any memes in need of updates?

[mercuryblues]

5. If you can't take the heat

get out of the White House.

[Cyrano]

6. A few more (literary/film references)

"Mein Trumpf"

"A Tale of Two Realities"

"Call me Schlemiel."

"From Russia with Detergent"

"Twelve Angry Investors"

"The Old Man and the Wig"

"Gone With the Election"

"Dissing Private Ryan"

(Feel free to add)