Famous quotes containing the words winter, service and/or uniform:
“The winter is to a woman of fashion what, of yore, a campaign was to the soldiers of the Empire.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“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)
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