Cork may refer to:
- Cork (material), used for bottle stoppers, insulation, etc.
- Cork (plug), bottle stopper
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Famous quotes containing the word cork:
“I think I owe my life to cork soles.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.”
—William Morris Hughes (1864–1952)
“When Prince William [later King William IV] was at Cork in 1787, an old officer ... dined with him, and happened to say he had been forty years in the service. The Prince with a sneer asked what he had learnt in those forty years. The old gentleman justly offended, said, “Sir, I have learnt, when I am no longer fit to fight, to make as good a retreat as I can” —and walked out of the room.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)