Lord Cork

Famous quotes containing the words lord and/or cork:

“Superior people remain kind and just even in poverty, but lowly people who become rich lord it over others.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Now who could take you off to tiny life
In one room or in two rooms or in three
And cork you smartly, like the flask of wine
You are? Not any woman. Not a wife.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)