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?)

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

    “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)