Winter Service Uniform

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

    “Whenas the Chill Sirocco blowes,
    And Winter tells a heavy tale;
    When Pyes and Dawes and Rookes and Crows,
    Sit cursing of the frosts and snowes;
    Then give me Ale.”
    —Thomas Bonham (d. 1629?)

    “We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.”
    —Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke Wellington (1769–1852)

    “We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can’t take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major’s uniform on.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)