Cork tree may refer to:
- Cork Oak, the tree from which most cork is harvested
- Chinese Cork Oak, a tree from which cork is occasionally harvested
- Cork-tree, a species of Phellodendron
Famous quotes containing the words cork and/or tree:
“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)
“If the tree is straight it need not fear casting a crooked shadow.”
—Chinese proverb.