Camels Quotes

• I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Recalled on his death, 4 Jun1971.

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• If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic

  Karl Pilkington

  Ships, Dessert, Ifs

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• Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

  Adolf Hitler

  Eye, Men, Discovery

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.

  Julian Tuwim

  Men, Differences, Drink

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• Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Adversity, Desert

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• A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Elephants, Jet Planes, Feels

  "A Hero for Our Time". Book by Ralph G Martin, 1983.

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• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  Rachel Weisz

  Relationship, Horse, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Oasis, Caravans

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• A camel is a horse designed by committee.

  Alec Issigonis

  Horse, Bad Ass, Design

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• Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Freedom, Inspirational Life, Responsibility

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

  Nazr Mohammed

  Ties, Providence

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• The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Prayer, Practice, Ties

  "Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation". Book by Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein, 1987.

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• Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid

  Dave Barry

  Pregnancy, Riding

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• When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.

  George W. Bush

  Fire, Tents, Action

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent." The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Night, Fire

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

  Ogden Nash

  Two, Way

  'The Camel' (1936)

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• On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

  Walter Moers

  Horse, Moving, Drunk

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• It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

  Charles Dickens

  Adversity, Lasts, Break

  Charles Dickens (1855). “Household Words”, p.59

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• Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Animal, Law, Desert

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3319, Delphi Classics

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• There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

  Rebecca West

  Art, Reason Why, Logical

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Dog, Time, Men

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.158, Shambhala Publications

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• If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

  Ruhollah Khomeini

  Animal, Islam, May

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• A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

  Alec Issigonis

  Horse, Looks, Committees

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• Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

  George Herbert

  Skins, Young

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.325

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• A great silence has descended on me for the last six months. I am as silent as an Arab in the desert, as dry, thirsty, and full of wonder and rumours which do not materialize into camels or travellers at all, but just vanish into the silent spaces from where they came. I expect this is a good thing though it is extremely irritating - the brink of a voice and never a voice.

  May Sarton

  Voice, Space, Silence

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