“ Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives. ”
- Maurice Chevalier- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. ”
- Reinhold Niebuhr- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things. ”
- Norman O. Brown- Copy
- 509
“ Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics. ”
- Mary Daly- Copy
- 1.4K
“ We've got a newfound dedication to being the newsy alternative,... We've always intended to be that, but we haven't quite been as up to that as we should have. ”
- Jonathan Klein- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ”
- Unknown- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.4K
“ There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue. ”
- Gordon B. Hinckley- Copy
- 489
“ Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. ”
- John Andrew Holmes- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 820
“ Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ”
- Russell Lynes- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. ”
- Christopher Hampton- Copy
- 186
“ I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ”
- C. S. Lewis- Copy
- 3.9K
“ If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. ”
- James A. Garfield- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. ”
- Mary Caroline Richards- Copy
- 2.3K
“ There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it. ”
- Maria Montessori- Copy
- 986
“ Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment. ”
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis- Copy
- 1K
“ The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. ”
- Anthony Burgess- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
- 2.7K
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