I began wearing hats as a young
lawyer because it helped me to
establish my professional identity.
Before that, whenever I was at a
meeting, someone would ask me
to get coffee...  Bella Abzug

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a
shoehorn to put his hat on....  
Muhammad Ali

 I have a hat. It is graceful and
feminine and gives me a certain
dignity, as if I were attending a
state funeral or something.
Someday I may get up enough
courage to wear it,
instead of carrying it
              ... Erma Bombeck 

So Britain’s monarch
once uncovered sat,
While Bradshaw bullied
in a broad-brimmed hat.
From: Man of Taste
 ..James Bramston

You start out giving your hat,
then you give your coat,
then your shirt, then your skin
and finally your soul
....... Charles De Gaulle

The whitewash’d wall,
the nicely sanded floor,
The varnish’d clock
that click’d behind the door;
The chest, contriv’d
a double debt to pay,
—A bed by night,
a chest of drawers by day.
A cap by night,
a stocking all the day
From: The Deserted Village. Line 227
..........Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)

I had a hat.
It was not all a hat,
—Part of the brim was gone
Yet still I wore it on.
From: Rhine Song of the German Soldiers after Victory.
 ...........Felicia Dorothea (Browne) Hemans (1793–1835)

The hat is the ultimum moriens of respectability.
From: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. viii.
 ..Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809–1894)

I know it is a sin
For me to sit and grin
At him here;
But the old three-cornered hat,
And the breeches,
and all that,
Are so queer!
From: The last Leaf.
...Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)

I thought I would dress
in baggy pants,
big shoes,
a cane and a derby hat,
everything a contradiction:
the pants baggy,
the coat tight,
the hat small and
the shoes large.
...Charlie Chaplin

A hat should be taken
off when you greet a
lady and left off for
the rest of your life.
Nothing looks more
stupid than a hat
...........P. J. O'Rourke 

And how should I know
your true love
From many another one?
Oh, by his cockle hat and staff,
And by his sandal shoone.
From:The Friar of Orders Gray
......Thomas Percy (1729–1811)

Tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied her raven ringlets in;
But not alone in the silken snare
Did she catch her lovely floating hair,
For, tying her bonnet under her chin,
She tied a young man’s heart within.
From: The Love-knot
......Nora Perry (1832–1896