Winter Service Uniform

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

    “Stands the Spring! heralded by its bright-clothed
    Trumpeters, of bough and bush and branch;
    Pale Winter draws away his white hands, loathed,
    And creeps, a leper, to the cave of time.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service populace, and all our specious comforts—the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria—are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.”
    —Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)

    “We know, Mr. Weller—we, who are men of the world—that a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)