Top 100 Camel Quotes
#1. Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel."
-Phil Lewis of LA Guns
R. Gayle Hawkins
#2. Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
Hafez
#3. But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.
Alfred Doblin
#4. Karras showered and then dressed in a T-shirt and trousers. Sitting down to his desk, he discovered a carton of Camel non-filters, and beside it a key that was labeled LANGUAGE LAB and another
William Peter Blatty
#5. It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin
every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands ...
Charlton Heston
#6. The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.
Tom Callahan
#7. The arabs are a backward people who eat nothing but camel dung.
Winston Churchill
#8. [On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.
Mildred Cable
#9. Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
Benjamin Disraeli
#10. The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?
Ogden Nash
#11. Are you in a desert? Then be a camel! Be compatible with the reality!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight stomachs each more rancid then the next and it just comes out of their mouth.
Steve Carell
#13. A man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue ...
Terry Pratchett
#14. There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.
Robyn Davidson
#15. I've been focusing on my career. I've had no time. That's why I wanted to go out this weekend. I've been storing that shit up like a sexual camel. At this point I'd probably just walk into the bar, blow my load all over the room like a fire hose, and walk out.
Darien Cox
#16. I shrug and smile amiably the way you do when you're in a foreign country and have no idea what anyone is saying, so you end up grinning and nodding your way into a three-way with a henna vendor and a camel.
Sarah Bird
#17. The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.
Larry Wall
#18. Mr. Dowler, could you go through this? Mr. Algie. Don't answer him, Dowler; he's going beyond all bounds. Paul Ruttledge. I was a rich man and I could not, and yet I am something smaller than a camel, and this is something larger than a needle's eye.
W.B.Yeats
#19. 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
#20. When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.
Jean Dubuffet
#21. I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.
Albert Camus
#22. trust the universe (or God), but tether your camel.
Teri Meehan
#23. My heart has become capable of every form: It is a pasture for gazelles And a monastery for Christian monks, And the pilgrim's Ka'ba, And the tablets of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. I follow the religion of Love: Whatever way love's camel takes, That is my religion, my faith.
Ibn Arabi
#24. A blanket could be used to wrap up all the love I have to offer you, so it'll be easier for you to carry it across the desert. You'd better get walking, because me and my camel won't be stopping until we have to pee.
Jarod Kintz
#26. I smoke so much. Three packs a day ... I went to the bathroom, a camel came out of my ass.
Dave Attell
#27. Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.
Rose Macaulay
#28. When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.
Chogyam Trungpa
#29. There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post.
Andrew Matthews
#30. You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.
Bob Dylan
#31. My ears rang and my imagination seethed as I led my camel slowly across the sand to that unvocal place; that place which I alone of living men had seen. In
H.P. Lovecraft
#32. 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
#34. A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. We Anhedonians have adapted to long periods between good news. Our national animal is the hope camel. We have no national bird. All the birds are dead.
Colson Whitehead
#36. A camel brayed columns from the rondavels; new sunlight struck the savage earth.
Mike Bond
#37. Many people still believe that "tough guy" means having a camel type muscles rather than a lion heart.
M.F. Moonzajer
#38. I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.
James Rosenquist
#39. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Ilona Andrews
#40. Don't worry girls ... I have the bladder of a camel ...
Joanne McClean
#41. It was difficult for her to preserve that haughty, sullen, and coldly indifferent demeanour that appears to be essential to the mannequin as she sails in with deliberate steps, turns round slowly and, with an air of contempt for the universe equalled only by the camel's, sails out.
W. Somerset Maugham
#42. A camel may be a horse designed by a committee, but a horse was designed by a woman.
Chloe Thurlow
#43. A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.
Alec Issigonis
#45. 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
#46. I have often found a small stream at its fountain-head, that, when followed up, carried away the camel with his load.
Saadi
#47. 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
#48. He runs like a camel. A really pissed off camel.
Art Donovan
#49. There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca West
#50. He spent more time on the road to Damascus than a Syrian camel driver. And we thought nobody could fill John Kerry's flip-flops! ... [Romney's record was] "anything but conservative until he changed all the light bulbs in his chandelier in time to run for President."
Mike Huckabee
#51. And I got myself a camel," Cordy finished with a smile.
Lex stared at her. "Why?"
"Duh, Lex, because I can .
Gina Damico
#52. Is there a right end of a camel for your head to be in?
Dani J. Caile
#53. Thorndyke never forgets a likely case. He is sort of a medico-legal camel. He gulps down the raw facts from the newspapers or elsewhere, and then, in his leisure moments, he calmly regurgitates them and has a quiet chew at them.
R. Austin Freeman
#54. The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.
Thomas Adams
#55. Being on a galloping camel bears several resemblances to energetic sex with an enormously strong and very ugly woman.
Mark Lawrence
#56. Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Brenda Holloway
#57. I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.
Spalding Gray
#58. If you want to know what the camel stole from your kitchen yesterday, then you shouldn;t slit open its stomach. You should stare into its arsehole.
Jussi Adler-Olsen
#60. Mrs. Margaret sigh heavy. Then she standing up, and starting make her own tea. She drink it in very thirsty way, like angry camel in the desert.
Xiaolu Guo
#61. 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
#62. Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush at Wal-Mart for 20 cents or a fine camel-hair brush from an art store for 20 dollars. The brush doesn't matter - how the finished painting looks is what matters.
Jerry Pate
#63. Hey, new girl. You know the straw that broke the camel's back? Is that the same thing as the last straw?
Stephanie Danler
#64. Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.
Robyn Davidson
#65. Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid
Dave Barry
#66. But this was the present moment - the party the camel driver had mentioned - and he wanted to live it as he did the lessons of his past and his dreams of the future.
Paulo Coelho
#67. It's the oasis," said the camel driver.
"Well, why don't we go there right now?" the boy asked.
"Because we have to sleep.
Paulo Coelho
#68. The camel's hump is an ugly lump,
Which well you might see at the zoo.
But uglier yet is the hump we get,
For having to little to do.
Rudyard Kipling
#69. They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!
Margaret Rome
#70. In the borough, three boys circled a white camel
that wept because at dawn
there was no other way except through the needle's eye!
Oh cross! Oh, nails! Oh, thorn!
Oh, thorn driven to the bone until the planet rust to pieces!
Federico Garcia Lorca
#71. 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
#72. Do you have one where you're riding a horse or a camel? Or sitting on a rocket ship? Those are always wildly popular with men looking for sex.
- SINGLE-MINDED
Lisa Daily
#73. Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn't make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days
as long as she could watch the goings-on.
Sarah Blake
#74. Ever since Constantine made Christianity the official "imperial faith, " Christians have been trying to push the camel of power and wealth through the slender needle's eye of the vision of Jesus.
Kurt Neilson
#75. Not so many moons ago, he had been able to run to the summit of the temple without losing a single breath; however, now he felt like an old camel that laboured under a load of corn. Years pass so quickly, and the dreams of youth are lost forever.
Alan Kinross
#76. Vimes was already lost. Oh, there was the sun, but that was just a direction. He could feel it on the side of his face.
And the camel rocked from side to side. There was no real way of judging distance, except by haemorrhoids.
Terry Pratchett
#77. It's a one of a kind, camel-toe couch. For when yoga pants aren't enough.
H.M. Ward
#78. 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
#79. Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
Adolf Hitler
#80. There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election.
Adolf Hitler
#81. Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu
Greg Mortenson
#82. Do not regret the passing if the camel and the caravan. The Sahara has changed, but it remains a desert without compromise, the world in its extreme. There is no place as dry and hot and hostile.
William Langewiesche
#83. soothing seemed to work and soon the grunts petered away in to the rhythmic rasping of animal slumber. To keep the camel calm, he removed his saddle and unstrapped the heavy bag from its back, and took out his robe. In
Tony Wilson
#85. The wise camel is not swayed by desert mirages; instead, it trudges on, in search for true water.
Ridley Pearson
#86. Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you know you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die.
Paulo Coelho
#87. I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
Amy Sedaris
#88. I remember seeing this video for the first time in college - miserable, half-drunk on Keystone Light, a Camel Light smoldering in my mouth, about to desperately tap-dance my way through another social interaction - and saying out loud: "I fucking *get* you, Bee Girl.
Dave Holmes
#89. I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again.
"No."
"I want to."
"Well, you go then."
You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it
Lucy Christopher
#90. You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel, Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.
Angie Sage
#91. The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel's mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid.
Marlon Brando
#92. 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
#93. It is a new year....It is time to get...back on the camel"
-Mr.Black
Jennifer Niven
#94. They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.
Allan Sherman
#95. At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing
Baltasar Gracian
#96. 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
#97. Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load,
Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code;
I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost,
I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.
Saadi
#98. A camel is a very awkward animal to ride, and it's very hard to get used to because they're not very graceful.
Gigi Hadid
#99. Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. Chesterton
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