Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
William Howard Taft

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
Brian Greene

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay

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

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
Raymond Duncan

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
Mary Martin

The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.
James S. McDonnell

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
Carl Bernstein

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown

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

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
Diane Sawyer

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
Anthony Burgess

The so-called peace path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.
Ahmed Yassin

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
David Herbert Lawrence

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
John Ruskin

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
Lee Iacocca