Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "canonically this is "insurance" but you don't pay for it, which makes no sense but whatever"

• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• you don't have to eat your dinner but you pay for your plate
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• Perhaps pain will stop me where good sense and virtue have failed
• But I don't want to pay for the obese smoking couch potato
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess
• Neutron-bomb landscape, lights gleaming but no sign of humanity
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• Tanks But No Tanks
• There is no god but God
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• I will make him promises, but not ones I am afraid to break
• You want to reassure her, but you don't know where to start
• Every Which Way but Loose
• Close, but no cigar
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• Don't lament but rather embrace the removal of human interaction
• There is no dream but this.
• I won't tell you the real reason why I hate you, but I'll tell you another which is just as good
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• In the city, silence is no longer silence but the memory of a noise
• I'm happy but you don't like me
• My skin will remember your skin, but I will no longer know. I will be a ghost forever
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• we are learning how not to forget, but we still don't know what's true
• It will only make our insides burn until we are nothing but ash.
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• "Too long ago" makes no sense to me.
• Why are all senses but vision abstract?
• Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
• But alas, I have no badger to offer you
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• When you have a trip planned, but don't go, you need to cancel your reservations
• The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend your other, less ludicrous opinion that glitch speed runs are pointless.
• Things they don't teach you at law school but really ought to
• A solution to spam (which doesn't work, but nice try)
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• I wish I cared about the things you cared about but I don't.
• You don't know me, but someday you will
• Scrabble words with a Q but no U
• They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• Swooping through the almost silent night with no hands on your handlebars but it's OK
• I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
• Don't take this personally, but it's personal
• But I Don't Want To Take Over The World
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• Don't settle for no damn coupon which they'll try to pass off to you
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• there are no rules, but there is a lot to learn
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• No, but I'll have a beer
• don't work from ideas toward reality, but from reality toward ideas
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
• I don't Daylog but I'm Daylogging
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• My skull is but a padded cell, the walls of which my inner demons bounce off
• The body's alive, but no head. I'm having a lot of trouble accepting it.
• no ideas but in things
• Don't litter, but go ahead and throw your cigarette butt on the ground
• I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
• No Snakes, but We’ve Got a Lot of Folks Looking
• I used to like it, but it makes me sick to the stomach
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• we ain't got no money, honey, but we got rain
• A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
• I would kiss you, but I don't know how to kiss
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• He thinks I don't, but I do
• We had no bait but our tongues
• I may be cold and calculating, but that doesn't make me a computer
• Being a dickhead
• but don't take my word for it
• i call my phone and i check my messages, but i don't have any messages
• I don't want to wear your skin, but I will if I catch you!
• Help wanted. No previous experience necessary. Martyrdom not required but highly suggested.
• In Which Ethel Gao Gets Off His Butt and Accepts the Call
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• no island, but you're not a big happy archipelago either
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but leaves a trail of busted stuff
• Keep doing it, but don't call it that
• Your bed is no longer here, but the windows are
• I don't know who Amber is, but she's got a stalker
• If you don't know how to make a mu, you have no business measuring quantities that small.
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• Don't meddle in that which you have no desire to understand
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• No model is true, but some models are useful
• We don't look for trouble but if it comes we don't run
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• butt naked
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• Mr. Butts
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
• Butt hinge
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• But my computer really IS possessed
• Butt crack of dawn
• Things people put up their butts
• Project B.U.T.T.
• Sororities are nothing but social crutches
• butts ARE litter
• You may think I'm lying, but it's true
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• But I digress
• If I could slip this skin but for a moment
• Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• BQN: But, one for all?
• Sexist jokes
• Yard Butt
• Not really by the rules, but...
• Free but worthless shares
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• I know you are, but what am I?
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way

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