Number of camels it would take for a man to buy me: every…

“The second thing that I struck me was that people are not, contrary to popular belief, rude. Not in the slightest. In fact, most…

— Sarah Reiley (Passed Ports

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…

— Walter Moers

Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary…

— Rick Riordan

Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade…

— Terry Pratchett

Don't you think it's strange that life, described as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure, should shrink to this coin-sized world? A…

— Jeanette Winterson

You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel…

— Kerstin Gier

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…

— Charlton Heston

“I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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,…

— Ibn Arabi

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

— Marianne Moore

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

— Charles Dickens

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…

— Saadi

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one…

— Rawi Hage