Top 12 Hocus Pocus Quotes

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

Kurt Vonnegut

Character, Imperfection, Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin

I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.

David

Focus, Hocus Pocus, Heard

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.

Kurt Vonnegut

Beer, People, Hocus Pocus

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.193, Penguin

I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Halloween, Lying, Hocus Pocus

If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.

Kurt Vonnegut

Scary, Hocus Pocus, Facts

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.52, Penguin

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

Kurt Vonnegut

Thinking, Hocus Pocus, Heard

Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.104, Penguin

An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

Richard P. Feynman

Ordinary, Fool, Hocus Pocus

Richard P Feynman (2014). “Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton”, p.284, Random House

Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

John Richard Green

People, Hocus Pocus, Nicknames

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

Carl L. Becker

Giving, Mind, Hocus Pocus

If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets.

Lucretius

Men, Saws, Hocus Pocus