Frank Cooke

Frank Cooke may refer to:

  • Frank Cooke (engineer) (1913–2005), American entrepreneur, engineer and inventor
  • Frank Cooke (broadcaster) (died 2007), broadcaster and writer
  • Frank Cooke (cricketer) (1862–1933), New Zealand cricketer

Famous quotes containing the words frank and/or cooke:

    Lizzie Borden took an axe
    And gave her mother forty whacks;
    When she saw what she had done,
    She gave her father forty-one.
    —Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.

    The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)

    Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
    —Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)