“Tightly clenched fist don’t catch blessings.”
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“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
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Variant: You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
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“There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.”
Herbert N. Casson cited in: The International Chemical Worker Vol. 13-15 (1953). p. 192
1950s and later
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”
" Undeveloped Notes http://books.google.com/books?id=xIEcAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage," The Smart Set (August 1922)
The World in Falseface http://books.google.com/books?id=7rlEAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage (1923)
“Pleasure may be snatched from life’s clenched fists, not joy”
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
“And over mastered by his choler, flies
With a clenched fist at him of Sericane.”
E tratto da la colera, aventosse
Col pugno chiuso al re di Sericana.
Canto XXVII, stanza 63 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book II: The Black Cauldron (1965), Chapter 2
