Baron Corbett of Castle Vale

Famous quotes containing the words baron, castle and/or vale:

    “The wrinkles in my brow,
    The furrows in my face,
    Say, limping age will lodge him now
    Where youth must give him place.”
    —Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)

    “He that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned.”
    —14th-century French proverb, first recorded in English in A. Barclay, Gringore’s Castle of Labour (1506)

    “Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife,
    Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
    Along the cool sequestered vale of life
    They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.”
    —Thomas Gray (1716–1771)