There is no substitute for work

Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

I think guns are just a symbolic substitute for male genitalia, and I’m okay in that respect. Fine. If they get in the house, you can whack them with your genitals.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

I love my family and I love my kids, but when the moments come, it’s not as though you can just substitute your own life with what you’re doing on film. You have to go to some other place where it’s bigger than your own life.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you’re talking about.

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality

There is no substitute for hard work

Books are good enough in their own way but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

We have tried to substitute mass for purpose. We have tried to regain military potency of defense by making it gigantic, unwieldy, complex. It never works.

Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday’s time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering

There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of man

A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it almost seem like a live teacher. … a perfect notation would be a substitute for thought.