Hand Shaking Quotes

I have even shaken hands with Mr. [William Randolph] Hearst. A man who is in politics is required to shake hands with almost everybody without requiring a certificate of character.

It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.

[Grover Cleveland] had a sort of patent way of shaking hands which he probably invented for self-protection. He grabbed the visitor's hand, gave it a slight squeeze, and dropped it like a hot potato. He never under any circumstances whatsoever permitted a visitor to grip his large, fat hand.

Any man who puts a pair of gloves on deserves respect because lots wouldn't dream of it. To get in there and go one-on-one, you need your hand shaking afterwards. Many men wouldn't get involved.

Returned last night from Ohio Day at the Centennial. It was an enthusiastic and prodigious crowd which greeted me. I managed to shake some four thousand people by the hand and to make half a dozen speeches from steps, windows and roof of the Ohio Building, without saying anything I regret—without "slopping over.

He does not shake hands, having experienced some injury by the frequent and too forcible use the "dear people" have made of that avenue to his heart.

The Italians - they cannot talk without shaking the hands. And I am like that, I'm from Brazil as well.