Winter Service Uniform

Famous quotes containing the words winter, service and/or uniform:

    “Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “We too are ashes as we watch and hear
    The psalm, the sorrow, and the simple praise
    Of one whose promised thoughts of other days
    Were such as ours, but now wholly destroyed,
    The service record of his youth wiped out,
    His dream dispersed by shot, must disappear.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    “Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one
    The great grey rigid uniform combined
    Safety with virtue of the sun.
    Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.”
    —Thom Gunn (b. 1929)