If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would…

“It mattered little if one was mute; people did not understand one another anyway. They collided with or charmed one another, hugged or trampled…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“Actually the contents of these books mattered little. What did matter was what they first felt when they went into the library, where they…

— Albert Camus

“It didn't really matter that we couldn't understand each other, what mattered were those little smiles and nods that said so much more than…

— Anne Fortier

He who went to the kings to seek favors went away from Allah.

— Umar

He who keeps his own counsel keeps his affairs in his own hands.

— Umar

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