Life Underwriters

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or underwriters:

“We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers’ wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

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