In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, wo...man's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, "until death doth part."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Insurance. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beat...ing the man who keeps the table.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a ...hat and a gun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women hock their jewels and their husbands' insurance policies to acquire an unaccustomed shade in hair or crêpe de chine. Why th...en is it that when anyone commits anything novel in the arts he should be always greeted by this same peevish howl of pain and surprise? One is led to suspect that the interest people show in these much talked of commodities, painting, music, and writing, cannot be very deep or very genuine when they so wince under an unexpected impact.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellen...t man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »