Year's endö still in straw hat and sandals

-Basho, Matsuo
c.1689  On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.126 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

He can't think without his hat.

-Beckett, Samuel
  Of Lucky. Waiting for Godot, act1.

I'm puttin'on my top hat Tyin'up my white tie Brushin'off my tails

-Berlin, Irving originally Israel Baline
  'Top Hat, White Tie and Tails', performed by Fred  Astaire in Top Hat.

My common conversation I do acknowledge austere, my behaviour full of rigor, sometimes not without morosity; yet at mydevotion I loveto usethe civility of my knee, my hat, and hand, withall thoseoutward and sensiblemotions which may express or promote my invisible devotion.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 3.

All hat and no cattle.

-Connally,John Bowden
  Responding to George Bush's claim to be a Texan. In the NewYork Times,14 Feb.

There was a fine gentle wind, and Mr Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it. The wind puffed, and Mr Pickwick puffed, and the hat rolled over and over as merrilyas a lively porpoise in a strong tide.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.4.

I Tiresias, old man with wrinkled dugs Perceived the scene, and foretold the restö I too awaited the expected guest. He, the young man carbuncular, arrives, A small house agent's clerk, with one bold stare, One of the low on whom assurance sits As a silk hat on a Bradford millionaire.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.3,'The Fire Sermon'.

Grab your coat, and get your hat, Leave your worry on the doorstep, Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

-Fields, Dorothy
  'On the Sunny Side of the Street'.

The way you wear your hat, The way you sip your tea, The mem'ry of all thatö No, no! They can't take that away from me!

-Gershwin, Ira originally Israel Gershowitz
  'They Can't  Take That  Away from Me', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

Love without hope, as when the young bird-catcher Swept off his tall hat to the Squire's own daughter, So let the imprisoned larks escape and fly Singing about her head, as she rode by.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
'Love without Hope'.

Under theblack hat, when Ihad first seenthem, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  Of Percy Wyndham-Lewis.  A Moveable Feast, ch.12 (published posthumously).

Since no normal humble man can help but feel magnificent in a brand-new suit of clothes, it is not surprising that those who don a fresh suit of bright white linen every day should feel magnificent always. Nor is it surprising that a normal humble head should swell beneath a solar topee, since a topee is more a badge of authority than a hat, as is the hat of a soldier.

-Herbert, Xavier
  Capricornia,'Psychological Effect of a Solar Topee'.

Shabby gentility has nothing so characteristic as its hat.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.8.

Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home to Me.

-Jerome,William
  Title of song.

There is a wicked inclination in most people to suppose anoldmandecayed inhisintellects.Ifayoungor middle- aged man, when leaving a company, does not recollect where he laid his hat, it is nothing; but if the same inattention is discovered inanold man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say,'His memory isgoing.'

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.4.

There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Just So Stories,'How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin'.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

-Laver,James
  The Concise History of Costume and Fashion, ch.8.

You have got to be a Queen to get away with a hat like that.

-Loos, Anita
  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, ch.4.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.

-Sacks, Oliver Wolf
  Title of book.

   We looked! Then we saw him step in on the mat! We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!

-Seuss, Dr pseudonym of  Theodor Seuss Geisel
  The Cat in the Hat.