Camels Quotes

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

  Nazr Mohammed

  Ties, Providence

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

  Rosita Forbes

  Singing, Sound, Facts

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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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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• There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Home

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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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• As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

  Akhenaton

  Men, Endurance, Hunger And Thirst

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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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• You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.

  Wilferd Peterson

  White, Hair, Hands

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