Alfred Cochrane

Alfred Cochrane (26 January 1865 – 14 December 1948) was an accomplished cricketer, and subsequently made his name as a writer on sporting subjects and of light verse

Quotes

 * Her reasoning is full of tricks And butterfly suggestions, I know no point to which she sticks; She begs the simplest questions, And, when her premises are strong She always draws her inference wrong.
 * Upon Lebia Arguing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


 * I once admitted—to my shame— That football was a brutal game. Because She hates it.
 * To Anthea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).