Hands Handshake Quotes

#1. Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.

W.C. Fields

#2. You've heard about the knitter's handshake? Two hands go in for the grab-and-shake, but at the last minute, they veer to the closest sleeve or band and grab it instead while we ask, "Did you knit this?

Clara Parkes

#3. I got a golden handshake that nearly broke my arm
I left the ranks of shuffling graveyard people
I got rust upon my hands from the padlocked factory gates
Silent chimneys provide the silent steeples

Fish

#4. But now you must give me your hand, an agreement of this sort needs to be confirmed with a handshake. Will she shake hands with me?

Franz Kafka

#5. Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Paul Celan

#6. The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.

Victoria Twead

#7. Wrong answer," Luc said, voice low as he dropped Lyla. "You always have a choice. It's the one thing that no one can strip from us.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. This is Zach." I said as Daniel shook hands with him. "The youngest is Ryan. The obnoxious one is Brent."
"I respect that assessment." Brent said, and awkwardly bump knuckles with Daniel instead of a handshake.

Bree Despain

#9. I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. So I'll say, 'Gimme five!' If a boy wants a handshake, I'll just give him a hug.

George Foreman

#10. I must go the washroom. I've shaken a lot of hands.

Yann Martel

#11. There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

Claude Debussy

#12. In the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

Mary Ruefle

#13. Saddam Hussein greeted me with a handshake, which, again to my surprise, is surprisingly soft considering how many people that hand had dispatched, allegedly. I think he's quite a forbidding presence, too forbidding a presence to be charming. But he's interesting.

George Galloway

#14. I will control myself, or go inside.
I will not flaw perfection with my grief.
Handsome, this day: no matter who has died.

Edna St. Vincent Millay