May Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

— Lucy Freeman

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not…

— Nellie L. McClung

Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the…

— Robert Genn

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

— Frederick Lenz

Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,…

— Thomas Sowell

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

— Lamar S. Smith

Love is just a chocolate substitute.

— Anonymous

There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.

— Josh Billings

Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages…

— Ludwig von Mises

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we…

— William James

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…

— Charles Dickens