Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.
There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
The vast carnival of cruelty called animal exploitation goes on and on - and it is all so needless, even counter-productive. There is already an adequate (often superior) non-animal substitute for virtually everything obtained by animal suffering and slaughter.
For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print. . . substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
Someone once remarked that in adolescence pornography is a substitute for sex, whereas in adulthood sex is a substitute for pornography.
What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.
A person should have wings to carry them where their dreams go, but sometimes a pair of skis makes a good substitute.
Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.
Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.
I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.
There may be some substitute for hard facts, but if there is, I have no idea what it can be.
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.