Winter Service Uniform

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

    “These are the small townsmen of death,
    A man and a woman, like two leaves
    That keep clinging to a tree,
    Before winter freezes and grows black....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “You had to face your ends when young
    ‘Twas wine or women, or some curse
    But never made a poorer song
    That you might have a heavier purse,
    Nor gave loud service to a cause
    That you might have a troop of friends.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)