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I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink. -- Joe E. Lewis
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
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. -- Jared Diamond
I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less. -- William John Wills
A camel is a horse designed by committee. -- Alec Issigonis
Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive. -- Robyn Davidson
Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market. -- George Herbert
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane. -- Jackie Kennedy
Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid -- Dave Barry
Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu -- Greg Mortenson
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. -- Alec Issigonis
If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic -- Karl Pilkington
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. -- Marianne Moore
I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color. -- Amy Sedaris
Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos. -- Robyn Davidson
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. -- Adolf Hitler
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. -- Rebecca West
Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back. -- Brenda Holloway
The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you? -- Ogden Nash
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media. -- Bernard Goldberg
Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel. -- David Letterman
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
In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards. -- Warren Beatty
It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory. -- Kwame Nkrumah
Ananna of Tanarau is a delightfully irascible heroine, inhabiting a fascinating and fresh new world that I would love to spend more time in. Pirate ships? Camels? Shadow dwelling assassins? Yes please! Can I have some more? -- Celine Kiernan
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
Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment. -- Desiderius Erasmus
The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of his camel; but if the pilgrim spends his whole time in feeding and adorning his camel, the caravan will leave him behind, and he will perish in the desert. -- Al-Ghazali
Both camels are dead and our provisions are done. -- William John Wills
Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. -- Roger Ebert
My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle. -- Willard Wigan
Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months. -- John Curran
Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling. -- Ambrose Bierce
If you deal in camels, make the doors high -- Afghan Proverb
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases. -- Molly Ivins
If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode. -- Umar
it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing. -- Rosita Forbes
Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels. -- Saint John Chrysostom
But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty. -- F. E. Adcock
It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole. -- Terry Pratchett
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. -- Charles Dickens
When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels. -- Jean Dubuffet
I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth. -- Edward Herrmann
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ... -- Jean Ingelow
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
Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul. -- Richard Aldington
Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken. -- Idries Shah
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
It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story. -- Richard Flanagan
Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships. -- Rick Riordan
How do you feel about helicopters?" There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?" "As a mode of transportation." "Faster than camels, but less sustainable. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch. -- David Sedaris
the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap. -- Rosita Forbes
Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. -- Idries Shah
In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels. -- Rawi Hage
Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face, it's babaric, but hey, it's home. -- Walt Disney
Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control. -- Alaa Al Aswany
Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz) -- Idries Shah
As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus ,it is with the wives of others. -- Guru Nanak

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