“Don't shake the hand of reality with one finger.”

— Eli Siegel

Damned Welcome: Aesthetic Realism Maxims, Definition Press 1964

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Latvian-American poet, philosopher 1902–1978

Jacquelyn Frank (1968) writer

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“When women kiss, it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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“And with a drugstore wife, I was dealing, sold a bit of the white, I don't shake no hands 'cause death has no fans.”

Richard Ashcroft (1971) English singer-songwriter

Rolling People
Urban Hymns (1997)

“Shake the hand that feeds you.”

Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism

Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“He would have liked to say goodbye,
Shake hands with many friends.
In Highgate now his finger-bones
Stick through his finger-ends.You, God, who treat him thus and thus,
Say, "Save his soul and pray."
You ask me to believe You and
I only see decay.”

John Betjeman (1906–1984) English poet, writer and broadcaster

"On a Portrait of a Deaf Man" line 25, from Old Lights for New Chancels.
Poetry

“I gotta shake hands with himǃ That's one guy I know I'm better lookin' than.”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

On Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh; as quoted in "The Village Smithyː Bobby Bragan Gets Good Seat To See 'My Boys' In Series; Yogi 'Better Looking' Than Danny" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pMAbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kU4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=2519%2C1822388 by Chester L. Smith, in The Pittsburgh Press (Wednesday, October 5, 1960), p. 53

“The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).”

Ilana Mercer South African writer

“On The War Path With Samantha Power,” http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/06/on-war-path-with-samantha-power.html Economic Policy Journal, June 7, 2013.
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