Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
Hocus Pocus quotes
Hocus Pocus
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Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise."
David
Musician
"I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them."
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
"An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!"
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"Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus.""
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"I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much."
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