Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.
The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
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