Palace Barracks Memorial Garden - Place of pilgrimage for the bereaved families of the security force personnel killed in Northern Ireland and the Falkland Islands. Includes a roll of honour for each conflict and photos of the garden.
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-- Jack Welch Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Society and Culture
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Society and Culture
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Society and Culture
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Society and Culture If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Use your own best judgment at all times.
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I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Society and Culture What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Society and Culture
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture "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 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Society and Culture
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Society and Culture "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Society and Culture My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Society and Culture People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Society and Culture It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Society and Culture
