Life Underwriters

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or underwriters:

“In ‘70 he married again, and I having, voluntarily, assumed the legal guilt of breaking my marriage contract, do cheerfully accept the legal penalty—a life of celibacy—bringing no charge against him who was my husband, save that he was not much better than the average man.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

“There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)