Money, Western Proverb

Money makes money.

- Western Proverb

Universe, Henri Bergson

[L]'universe […] est une machine à faire des dieux.
Translation: The universe is a machine for making gods.

- Henri Bergson (1859-1941), The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317.

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Advice, Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), Richelieu (1839)

Act ii, Scene ii. This is the origin of the much quoted phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword". Compare: "Hinc quam sic calamus sævior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 4, Subsect. 4.

Money, Robert W. Sarnoff

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

$ Robert W. Sarnoff

Gun, Michelle Rodriguez

[after having attacked Col. Quaritch] Oops. You're not the only one with a gun! - Michelle Rodriguez as Trudy Chacon from Avatar (2009)

Money, Juvenal

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

- Juvenal

Beauty, Western Proverb

Casting pearls before swine.

- Western Proverb