Life Underwriters

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or underwriters:

“War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

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