Life Underwriters

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or underwriters:

“For Jeremy, direct, unmediated experience was always hard to take in, always more or less disquieting. Life became safe, things assumed meaning, only when they had been translated into words and confined between the covers of a book.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

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