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The British Army - Official website of the British Army. Includes information on careers, the equipment and role of the Army, current operations and regimental histories.
The Tank Museum - Bovington - Official website of the worlds largest collection of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles.
National Army Museum - History of Britain's armies from the era of the Redcoat to Afghanistan. Extensive collections, realistic models and reconstructions.
Territorial Army - Provides information about the activities and locations of the T.A., including an interactive map and details of careers.
Armoured Fighting Vehicle - Information on infantry role.
Army On-line Image Database - Many photos, crests, logos and recent news pictures. Download images or order prints online. Registration required to enter site.
My Camouflage - Aimed at 12-17 year olds interested in finding out more about the British Army. Includes helpful information, career advice, free downloads, games and special offers, news, features, competitions and events.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Army You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Army "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Army Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Army When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise Army Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Army The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. -- Albert Einstein I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Army That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Army "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Army Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere Army It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. -- Henry James "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President He who laughs last thinks slowest. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Army Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V Army "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Army Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman Army Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Army "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Army The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Army "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Army Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Army "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Army Marriage is a rest period between romances. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein Army "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. -- St. Francis of Assisi I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. -- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Army
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