Camels Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• He runs like a camel. A really pissed off camel.

  Art Donovan

  Running, Nfl, Pissed Off

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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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• Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

  Greg Mortenson

  Ties, Trust In Allah

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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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• The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

  Amelia B. Edwards

  Lying, Virtue, Surface

  Amelia B. Edwards (2008). “A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: Fully Illustrated Second Edition”, p.186, Norton Creek Press

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• The Arab and the camel are inseparable. It's been said that and Arab would give up his wife rather than give up his camel. Personally, I haven't got a camel, but I think it's a great idea.

  Groucho Marx

  Giving Up, Thinking, Ideas

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• 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

  Animal, Pigs, Disease

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• You know the little camel on the pack of cigarettes? They just found out that's not even a camel. It's actually a horse with a big, old tumor growing out of its mouth.

  Arj Barker

  Horse, Smoking, Growing

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• 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

  Practice, Ideas, Riding

  William John Wills (1863). “A Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia: From Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria”, p.102, London : R. Bentley

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• 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

  Funny, Sarcastic, Iraq

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• I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.

  Amy Sedaris

  Color, Bedroom, Old Lady

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• Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

  Brenda Holloway

  Song, Knights, Broke

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• I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sex, Children, Glimpse

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• Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

  Molly Ivins

  Oasis, Texas, Desert

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• 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

  Eye, Giving, Political

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• I visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was in West London, in an old Gillette factory. You'd go into the factory through the security, and then there were a lot of camels and goats. Most sets are really dull, but this was fantastic.

  Steven Knight

  London, West, Goats

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Giving, Depth, Way

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

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• 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

  Wise, Intelligent, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, Betty Radice (1990). “Praise of Folly”

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• When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Want, Limits, Draws

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• Why did one straw break the camel's back?
  Here's the secret:
  The million other straws underneath it.

  Mos Def

  Rap, Hip Hop, Secret

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• 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

  Cat, Giving, Soul

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• I used to carry a rabbit's foot for luck. Then it was a monkey's paw. Now it's a camel's toe.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Feet

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• Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

  Jim Butcher

  Smart, Stupid, Sometimes

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• As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Night, The End Of The Day, Burden

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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