Weekend Words: Handshake
"When is a handshake not just a handshake?" asks the New York Daily News. "When it happens between the presidents of Cuba and the United States, two countries whose enmity has lasted well over half a century and resisted all attempts to normalize relations."
“When is a handshake not just a handshake?” asks the New York Daily News. “When it happens between the presidents of Cuba and the United States, two countries whose enmity has lasted well over half a century and resisted all attempts to normalize relations.”
“Out where the handclasp’s a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That’s where the West begins.”
—Arthur Chapman, “Out Where the West Begins” (1916)
“When I make a vow to God, then I would suggest to you that’s even stronger than a handshake in Texas.”
—Rick Perry
“The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.”
—Jhumpa Lahiri
“Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.”
—Paul Celan
“There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.”
—Lord Acton
“The love the land because it is their own And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his Majesty.”
—Fitz-Greene Halleck, “Connecticut” (1847)
