Life Underwriters

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or underwriters:

“Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.”
—Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)

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