Horse Guards or horse guards can refer to:
- A Household Cavalry regiment:
- Troops of the Horse Guards Regiment of the British Army from 1658-1788
- The Royal Horse Guards, which is now part of the Blues and Royals
- The Governor General's Horse Guards, the Household Cavalry regiment of the Canadian Forces
- Horse Guards (building), a building in Whitehall, London, formerly the headquarters of the British Army
- Horse Guards Parade, the parade ground behind the building where the Trooping the Colour ceremony is held annually
- Horse Guards Road, the road between the parade ground and St. James's Park
- Horse guard wasp, a North American sand wasp which eats horse flies
Famous quotes containing the words horse and/or guards:
“We read that the traveller asked the boy if the swamp before him had a hard bottom. The boy replied that it had. But presently the traveller’s horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, “I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom.” “So it has,” answered the latter, “but you have not got half way to it yet.” So it is with the bogs and quicksands of society; but he is an old boy that knows it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his castle, his property is safe. But when one stronger than he attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his plunder.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 11:21.22.