Time Cork

Famous quotes containing the words time and/or cork:

“There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“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)