Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Soldier
Though a soldier in time of peace is like a chimney in summer, yet what wise man would pluck down his chimney because his almanac told him it was the middle of June.
—Tom Brown
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Soldiers are like cloaks,—one thinks of us only when it rains.
—Marshal Saxe