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HATS
HAWAII --- HAY FEVER
HEAR/ING --- HEARTBREAK --- HEARTS --- HEAT

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HATS

see: "DRESS"
see: "FASHION"
see: "THE BODY" for other related links


It was necessary to abolish the fez, which sat on the heads of
our nation as an emblem of ignorance, negligence, fanaticism,
and hatred of progress and civilization, to accept in its place
the hat — the headgear used by the whole civilized world.
--Mustafa Kemal Atatόrk (1881—1938)
Soldier, statesman, and reformer who was the founder and
first president [1923—1938] of the Republic of Turkey.
Speech to Turkish Assembly [October 1927].

In spite of their hats being very
ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
--Pierre-Jean de Bιranger (1780—1857)
French poet and songwriter.
Attributed in W. Gurney Benham
_A Book of Quotations, Proverbs and Household Words_, p. 729 [1907].

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 (b. 1947)
American political satirist.
_Modern Manners_ [1983]

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H.G. Wells (1866—1946)
British novelist.

On leaving a Cambridge party, Wells accidentally picked
up a hat that did not belong to him. Discovering his
mistake, he decided not to return the hat to its rightful
owner, whose label was inside the brim. The hat fit Wells
comfortably; furthermore, he had grown to like it. So he
wrote to the erstwhile owner: 'I stole your hat; I like
your hat; I shall keep your hat. Whenever I look inside
it I shall think of you and your excellent sherry and of
the town of Cambridge. I take off your hat to you.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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puggree (noun) [ 'pκ-gree]
1. Turbans worn in India or the drill (cloth) they are made from.
2. A thin scarf wound around a sun-helmet and falling down the
back to shade the neck.

yarmulke (noun)
A small round cap worn by Jewish men and boys. Orthodox Jews wear the
yarmulke at all times, while Conservative Jews wear it for prayer or on
ceremonial occasions only.




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HAWAII

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see: "PLACES"


Honolulu — it's got everything. Sand for
the children, sun for the wife, sharks for
the wife's mother.
--Ken Dodd (b. 1927)
English comedian and singer songwriter.
Quoted in Jon Winokur _The Traveling Curmudgeon_, p. 28 [2003].

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No alien land in all the world has any deep
strong charm for me but that one, no other
land could so longingly and so beseechingly
haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half
a lifetime, as that one has done.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
In Walter F. Frear _Mark Twain and Hawaii_ [1947].


The lovliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.
In a letter to H.P. Wood, secretary of the Hawaii Promotion Committee,
in Walter F. Frear _Mark Twain and Hawaii_ [1947].

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HAY FEVER

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see: "FLOWERS"
see: "GARDENS"
see: "SPRING"


The moral order of the world runs aground on hay fever.
Of what use is it? Why was it invented? Cancer and
hydrophobia, at least, may be defended on the ground
that they kill. Killing may have some benign purpose,
some esoteric significance, some cosmic use. But hay
fever never kills; it merely tortures. No man ever
died of it. Is the torture, then, an end in itself?
Does it break the pride of strutting, snorting man,
and turn his heart to the things of the spirit?
Nonsense! A man with hay fever is a natural criminal.
He curses the gods, and defies them to kill him. He
even curses the devil. Is its use, then, to prepare
him for happiness to come — for the vast ease and
comfort of convalescence? Nonsense again! The one
thing he is sure of, the one thing he never forgets
for a moment, is that it will come back again next
year.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Damn! A Book of Calumny_ [1918] "A Theological Mystery"



HEAR/ING

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see: "EARS"
see: "LISTENING"
see: "SOUNDS"
see: "THE BODY" for other related links


The world is dying for want, not of
good preaching, but of good hearing.
--George Dana Boardman, the younger (1828—1903)
President of the American Baptist Missionary Union.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 437 [1908 ed.].

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.
--Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343—1400)
English poet.
_The Canterbury Tales_, bk. IV, l. 435 [c. 1387]
(In one ear and out the other.)

Little pitchers have wide eares.
--George Herbert (1593—1633)
English religious poet.
_Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640]

Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.
--Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921)
Consort of Queen Elizabeth II.
On a visit to the new National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff,
said to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican
steel drum band; "Deaf insulted by duke's remark"
_BBC_ [27 May 1999]

Friends, Romans countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Julius Caesar_, III, ii [1599]

"Sir Jasper Finch-Farrowmere?" said Wilfred.
"finch-farrowmere," corrected the visitor, his
sensitive ear detecting the capital letters.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_Meet Mr. Mulliner_ [1927], "A Slice of Life"

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A man was telling his neighbor, 'I just bought a new
hearing aid. It cost me four thousand dollars, but it's
state of the art. It's perfect.'

'Really,' answered the neighbor. 'What kind is it?'

'Twelve thirty.'

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dulcet (adj.) ['dκl-set]
Pleasingly sweet to the ear, soothingly musical,
most closely associated with sounds, such as those
of the dulcimer, a word based on the same root.



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HEARTBREAK

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see: "DEATH" for related links
see: "LOVE & MARRIAGE (OR NOT)" for related links


There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories
were full of hearts broken by love, but what really
broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever
that dream might be.
--Pearl S. Buck (1892—1973)
American author noted for her novels of life in China;
winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature.
_The Patriot_, pt. II [1939]

The world either breaks or hardens the heart.
--Sιbastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741—1794)
French playwright and conversationalist.
Attributed in _A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and
Wickedness_ [1880], collected and translated by J. De Finod.

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is
generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in
the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all
other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.
--Henry Fielding (1707—1754)
English novelist and dramatist.
Attributed in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 123 [10th ed. 1884].

Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung
and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping
it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to
an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little
luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the
casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket —
safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will
not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable,
irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
--C.S. [Clive Staples] Lewis (1898—1963)
British scholar and novelist.
_The Four Loves_ [1960]

The fonder you are of your ideals, the greater your heart breaks.
--Lin Yutang (1895—1976)
Chinese writer and philogist.
_Between Tears and Laughter_, p. 6 [1943, 2005 ed.]

You may break your heart, but men will still go on as before.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_ Book VIII, Number 4

If it were not for *hope* the heart would break.
--John Ray (1627—1705)
English naturalist and botanist.
_A Collection of English Proverbs_ p. 156 [1678]

As for you, my galvanized friend, you want a heart.
You don't know how lucky you are not to have one.
Hearts will never be practical until they can be
made unbreakable.
--"The Wizard" (Frank Morgan)
(In the film "The Wizard Of Oz" [1939], screenplay by Noel Langley.)



HEARTS

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see: "EMOTION"
see: "LOVE"
see: "THE BODY" for other related links


Two souls in one, two hearts into one heart.
--Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas (1544—1590)
French poet.
_La Semaine_ (The First Week) [1578] "Sixth Day"

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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 17:22


A man after his own heart.
--Bible
"The First Book of Samuel" 13:14

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And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan
A lady fair.
--Robert Burns (1759—1796)
Scottish poet and songwriter.
"Epistle To Dr. Blacklock" [21 October 1789]

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always
harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will
only be a greater knave as he grows older.
--Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] (1694—1773)
British writer and politician.
Letter to his son [17 May 1750].

Be still, my beating heart, be still!
--Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861—1907)
English poet.
"All One" [1910]

Man may content himself with the applause of
the world and the homage paid to his intellect;
but woman's heart has holier idols.
--Augusta Jane Evans (1835—1909)
American novelist.
_Beulah_ [1860]

None but the lonely heart
Knows what I suffer!
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre_ (Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship),
bk. 4, ch. 11 [1795—1796]

What love is, if thou wouldst be taught,
Thy heart must teach alone--
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
--Friedrich Halm (1806—1871)
German dramatist.
"Der Sohn der Wildnis" [1842]

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!
What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
--Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804—1864)
American novelist and short-story writer.
_The House of the Seven Gables_, ch. 11 [1851]

The greatest test of courage on earth is
to bear defeat without losing heart.
--Robert Green Ingersoll (1833—1899)
American politician and orator know as "The Great Agnostic."
_Col. R. G. Ingersoll's Famous Speeches Complete_ [1906]

Fairy tales can come true,
It can happen to you
If you're young at heart.
--Carolyn Leigh (1926—1983)
American songwriter.
"Young at Heart" [1954 song] w/music by Johnny Richards.

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The hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel
beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever
afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach.
Or, again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell
until it is misery to carry within the body, easily chafed
and hurt by the most ordinary things.
--Carson Smith McCullers (1917—1967)
American author.
_The Ballad of the Sad Cafι_ [1951]


The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
--Carson Smith McCullers (1917—1967)
American author.
Title of 1940 book.

but note:

My heart is a lonely hunter that haunts on a lonely hill.
--William Sharp [using pseudonym Fiona Macleod] (1855—1905)
Scottish novelist and poet.
"The Lonely Hunter", l. 24 [1896]

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.
--Blaise Pascal (1623—1662)
French mathematician, physicist, and moralist.
_Pensιes_ ("Thoughts"), no. 680 [1658]

A full heart has room for everything and
an empty heart has room for nothing.
--Antonio Porchia (1885—1968)
Italian poet.
_Voces_ [1943], translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart
filling up as the brain empties.
--attributed to Jules Renard (1864—1910)
French novelist and dramatist.

Who knows what evil lurks in the
hearts of men? The Shadow knows.
--"The Shadow" (U.S. radio show 1930-1954)

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A light heart lives long.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Love's Labour's Lost_, V, ii [1598]


But I wear my heart upon my sleeve,
For doves to peck at: I am not what I am.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Othello_, I, i [1604-1605]

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You may choose your word like a connoisseur,
And polish it up with art;
But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays,
Is the word that comes from the heart.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850—1919)
American author and poet.
_New Thought Pastels_ [1906]



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HEAT

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see: "HELL"
see: "SUMMER"
see: "NATURE" for other related links


What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps
me in a continual state of inelegance.
--Jane Austen (1775—1817)
English writer.
Letter [18 September 1796].

[On a hot summer day in NYC:]
Mrs. Al Rosen: You look so cool in that seersucker suit, Yogi.
Yogi Berra: Thanks, Mrs. Rosen, you don't look so hot yourself.
--story told to Saul Isler by Al Rosen and quoted
in William Safire _Coming to Terms_ [1991].

[Of the Forty-Niners crossing the prairie:]
By this time they had been together for three
or four months. It was August and normally
one hundred or one hundred and ten degrees
in any discoverable shade, and the nerves
began to snap. People went mad: one man
shot his brother because he could no longer
stand the sound of his voice, another man
tried to strangle a partner for the crime of
twirling a luxuriant mustache. This was,
they thought at the time, the nadir of the
trek. Certainly, brotherly love gave out.
--Alistair Cooke [Alfred Cooke] (1908—2004)
British-born American broadcater and journalist.
_America_ [1973]

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"Mad Dogs and Englishmen"
by Noλl Coward (1899—1973)
English playwright, actor and composer.


In tropical climes there are certain times of day
When all the citizens retire to tear their clothes off and perspire.
It's one of the rules that the greatest fools obey,
Because the sun is much too sultry
And one must avoid its ultry-violet ray.
The natives grieve when the white men leave their huts,
Because they're obviously, definitely nuts!

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun,
The Japanese don't care to, the Chinese wouldn't dare to,
Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one
But Englishmen detest-a siesta.
In the Philippines they have lovely screens to protect you from the glare.
In the Malay States, there are hats like plates which the Britishers won't wear.
At twelve noon the natives swoon and no further work is done,
But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,
That though the English are effete, they're quite impervious to heat,
When the white man rides every native hides in glee,
Because the simple creatures hope he will impale his solar topee on a tree.
It seems such a shame when the English claim the earth,
They give rise to such hilarity and mirth.
Ha ha ha ha hoo hoo hoo hoo hee hee hee hee ......

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
The toughest Burmese bandit can never understand it.
In Rangoon the heat of noon is just what the natives shun,
They put their Scotch or Rye down, and lie down.
In a jungle town where the sun beats down to the rage of man and beast
The English garb of the English sahib merely gets a bit more creased.
In Bangkok at twelve o'clock they foam at the mouth and run,
But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.
The smallest Malay rabbit deplores this foolish habit.
In Hong Kong they strike a gong and fire off a noonday gun,
To reprimand each inmate who's in late.
In the mangrove swamps where the python romps
there is peace from twelve till two.
Even caribous lie around and snooze, for there's nothing else to do.
In Bengal to move at all is seldom ever done,
But mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun.

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The hottest places in hell are reserved for
those who in times of great moral crises
maintain their neutrality.
--Dante Alighieri (1265—1321)
Italian poet, literary theorist, and moral philosopher.
Credited to Dante by JFK in a 1959 speech, these
are not Dante's words according to Ralph Keyes
in _The Quote Verifier_. Fred R. Shapiro in _The
Yale Book of Quotations_ agrees, and adds that
Arthur M. Schlesinger "states in _A Thousand Days_
that Kennedy wrote" a similar passage "and attributed
the words to Dante." Thus, the origin remains unclear.

Thy eternal summer shall not fade.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Sonnets_ 18, l. 9 [1609]

"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here,
that I found there was nothing left for it but to
take off my flesh and sit in my bones."
--Sydney Smith (1771—1845)
English clergyman and essayist,
in 1802 cofounded "The Edinburgh Review."
Quoted in Lady Holland (Smith's daughter)
_A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith_ [1855].

[Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton):]
I'm melting! I'm melting! Oh, what a world! What a world!
--"The Wizard Of Oz" [1939 film]
Screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf.

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Come to Arizona, where summer spends the winter.
--anon., booster slogan [1935]

...And where Hell spends the summer.
--anon. local resident according to H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.

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sultry (adjective) ['sκl-tri]
(1) Oppressively hot and humid, sweltering, steamy;
(2) Oppressively hot and dry, as a sultry summer sun;
(3) Voluptuous and mysterious, arousing lust (when
associated with a woman).

swelter
To be overcome and faint with heat; to be ready to perish with heat.

torrid [TOR-uhd], adjective:
1. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning;
parching; as, "torrid heat."
2. Characterized by intense emotion; as, "a torrid love
affair."
3. Emotionally charged and vigorously energetic; as,
"a torrid dance."


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