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Quotes About Substitute

If in the place of God we write "Reality", "Nature", "Unknowable", or "Zero", it matters not one whit; the equation is just as obscure; for all we have done is to replace a by b, c, d, or e, not knowing what these letters mean. The symbol has changed, but what it symbolizes remains as inscrutable.
~ Unknown
an award one's superiors gave in lieu of a bonus—
~ Jack L. Chalker
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
~ James A. Garfield
Ed Murrow]would remark during a BBC broadcast: "It is difficult to explain the meaning of cold to people who are warm, the meaning of privation to people who have wanted only for luxuries...It is almost impossible to substitute intelligence for experience.
~ Unknown
there's a limit to enduring admiration being a substitute for love.
~ John Irving
Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.
~ John Henry Newman
If you dont love me, somebody will. If you're not missing me, somebody is. If you dont care about me, somebody does. You're replaceable.
~ Unknown
From your mind I was easily erased and from your heart I was easily replaced..
~ Unknown
I'm the person everyone replaces after a while.
~ Unknown
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...
~ Marcel Proust
They have vegan cheese." "No, they don't. They have shredded orange and white sadness that mocks cheese and everything it stands for.
~ John Scalzi
I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.
~ Edmund H. North
Your first choice doesn't come through, so you come and find me, your back-up plan.
~ Unknown
There is absolutely no substitute for the best. Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing.
~ JAMES BEARD
Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.
~ Norman Douglas
Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.
~ Jeff Smith
Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Just a reminder - a guidebook is no substitute for skill, experience, judgment and lots of tension.
~ Unknown
No es la eternidad pero es el instante, que, después de todo, es su único sucedáneo verdadero.
~ Mario Benedetti
He decried any nonalcoholic substitute, even water - because he reasoned "fish fuck in it.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Unknown
I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning. Mitch do you like submarine sandwhiches? All-encompassingly...
~ Mitch Hedberg
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~ Somerset Maugham