Life Guards

Life Guards may refer to several military regiments:

  • Life Guards (British Army)
  • Life Guards (Swedish Army)
  • Russian Imperial Guard
  • Garde du Corps (France), during the Ancien Régime
  • Commander-in-Chief's Guard of the Continental Army, commonly referred to as Washington's Life Guards

Famous quotes containing the words life and/or guards:

    “A simple child,
    That lightly draws its breath,
    And feels its life in every limb,
    What should it know of death?”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)