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Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
— Elsa Maxwell
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
— Mark Twain
Risk is just an expensive substitute for information.
— Adrian Slywotzky
The great work of Gibbon is indispensable to the student of history. The literature of Europe offers no substitute for "The
— Edward Gibbon
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Creativity is not a substitute for competence.
— Mason Cooley
I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.
— Todd Barry
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
— Virginia Woolf
Having a coach or mentor is nothing more than sharing life's experiences, no amount of education can substitute true life experience
— Lachlan McPherson
There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.
— Warren Buffett
Parma is an amazing Parmesan cheese substitute made from walnuts. It tastes like a dream and is healthy, to boot!
— Rory Freedman
I don't substitute anybody else's judgment for my own.
— Phil McGraw
People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.
— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
A substitute shines brightly as a king
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare
Until a king be by, and then his state
Empties itself, as dot an inland brook
Into the main of waters. — William Shakespeare
When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.'
— Jason Kilar
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
— Charles Studd
There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.
— Keith Richards
The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.
— Leland Ryken
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.
— Paul Mellon
Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies ... our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.
— Deepak Chopra
Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.
— George Arthur Buttrick
I would never have turned pro training like an average bodybuilder. There is no substitute for intensity.
— Branch Warren
A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.
— Marshall McLuhan
Often, the thing we pursue most passionately is but a substitute for the one thing we really want and cannot have.
— Eric Hoffer
Neither smiles nor frowns, neither good intentions nor harsh words, are a substitute for strength.
— John F. Kennedy
A son is a poor substitute for a mother.
— Joseph Stefano
Process is not a substitute for skill.
— Jim Highsmith
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
— George Santayana
[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.
— Rick Moody
Brains are no substitute for judgement.
— Dean Acheson
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
— Fred Thompson
Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.
— Beverly Sills
A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.
— Idries Shah
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
— Jimmy Carter
Contentment is the only one substitute for happiness.
— Kishore Bansal
I once heard it said that everyone needs love-and if they're denied, they'll find it, or a reasonable substitute somewhere.
— Richard Paul Evans
There was no substitute for a post-coital cuddle.
— Mary J. Williams
Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
— Victor Hugo
She may be cute, but she's just a substitute.
— Smokey Robinson
God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.
— Adrian Rogers
Sybil, vulgarity is no substitute for wit.
— Julian Fellowes
There is no substitute to living in one's native land, struggling and winning with one's own people.
— Mario I. Miclat
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
— Thomas Sowell
The question we face is whether this candidate can succeed. The question we seem to answer is whether she interviews well. Let's not substitute.
— Daniel Kahneman
A temptation is Satan's cheap substitute for the real gifts from heaven the Father has given us.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
— Robert McNamara
There is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
— Candice Bergen
It tasted like one of those herbal concoctions that health-food enthusiasts substitute for tea.
— Aldous Huxley
There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.
— Charlie Munger
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
— Barbara Tuchman
Zealous conviction is a dangerous substitute for an open mind.
— Elizabeth F. Loftus
I like pasta; it's pretty good. I'll even substitute wheat pasta in there and make it more healthy.
— Prince Fielder
Like the one-sentence paragraph, the second-person point of view can also make us suspect that style is being used as a substitute for content.
— Francine Prose
There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.
— Thomas Boswell
In war there is no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
We must substitute fear for faith, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
— Hannah More
Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
— Rebecca Goldstein
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
— Carl Von Clausewitz
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
— John Ruskin
Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs
— Shakira
Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...
— Patti Page
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
— Thomas Sowell
I've heard that sarcasm is no substitute for cleverness
— Meredith Duran
For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.
— Pauline Kael
And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the top
— John Ajvide Lindqvist
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
— Benjamin Cardozo
Elijah found his substitute Elisha in his purpose doing work in the field
— Ikechukwu Joseph
There's no substitute to actually being in the room and having people in the room feel the force of your audition. It's very hard to beat that.
— Zach Galligan
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
— Ambrose Bierce
There is no substitute for learning to live in our bodies.
— George A. Sheehan
There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
— Thomas Friedman
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
— L.M. Montgomery
Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.
— Lamar S. Smith
There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.
— Michael Heisley
If you give a discount there's a desperation there and I like to substitute desperation with service and real quality. And the desperation goes away.
— Geoffrey Zakarian
There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
— Calvin Coolidge
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
— Howard Zinn
The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.
— James Smith McDonnell
You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.
— Thomas Gibson
Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
— Ambrose Bierce
Thinking must never be a substitute for action.
— Marty Rubin
You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.
— Winston Churchill