Winter Service Uniform

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

“The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after plastering and of brown paper; for even the wildest animals love comfort and warmth as well as man, and they survive the winter only because they are so careful to secure them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The gods’ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“The maples
Stood uniform in buckets, and the steam
Of sap and snow rolled off the sugarhouse.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)