Life Underwriters

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or underwriters:

“The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon’s gin; out of any businessman’s life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.”
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)

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