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.
Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.
Forgiveness is no substitute for justice.
No one has come up with a substitute for hard work.
Marriage is no substitute for political experience.
There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.
If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
Typing is no substitute for thinking.
There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.
There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.
...aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.
Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.
Explanations are a substitute for trust.
Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.
It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.
Television... is not a substitute for print.
Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises.
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves
There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.
The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.
There is no substitute for a militant freedom.
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.
I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.
Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all.
Using clichés is a substitute for thinking
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.
Personal virtue is no substitute for political hard-headedness.
We must substitute courage for caution.
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action...
A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.
I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha.
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.
Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.
Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.
Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.
Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
There is no substitute for work.
There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.