“This is the morning that we burnt a cardboard hat”

“Max Bialystock: I'm wearing a cardboard belt!”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

“A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

“We looked! Then we saw him
Step in on the mat!
We looked! And we saw him!
The Cat in the Hat!”

Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat

“Hat = wizard, wizard = hat. Everything else is frippery.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

“No! You don't wear a hat on your gentles! You wear a hat on your head where you're supposed to wear a hat!”

Mel Brooks (1926) American director, writer, actor, and producer

“I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.”

Ellen Goodman (1941) American journalist and writer

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads?”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

“We raise our hats to the strange phenomena.
Soul-birds of a feather flock together.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer