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Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?
— Hats
Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?
The hat is the ultimatum moriens of respectability.
A man is nothing without his hat.
A hat should be taken off when greeting a lady, and left off the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.
Oh, Hat that cows the spirit! The Face that Sits Below It!.
Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatteAs many a woman can.
So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat,While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat.
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
A hat not much the worse for wear.
My new straw hat that's trimly lin'd with green,Let Peggy wear.
I know it is a sin Are so queer.
The Quaker loves an ample brim,As if it never made a dam.
A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing—makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything in life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men—we put it to your own experience, reader—have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
