Showing posts with label Hal Rogers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hal Rogers. Show all posts

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Death on the Installment Plan

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Insurance is death on the installment plan. – Philip Slater




Insurance is the guarantee that, no matter how many necessities a person has to forgo all through life, death was something to which he could look forward. – Fred Allen



Progress means taking risks, for you can’t steal home and keep your foot on third base. – Herbert V. Prochnow



Being grown up means we can have our own way – at our expense. – Hal Rogers



There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy



We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. – Eric Hoffer