An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus. "
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.
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
The biggest distraction in life to one's focus is often near locus standing people saying all hocus-pocus.
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.
I put a spell on you and now you're mine. You can't stop the things I do. I ain't lying.
I once heard someone say that success is not hocus pocus but focus focus.
If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them.
