Camels Quote by George Herbert Download Open image “Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.” — George Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Camels Investing Skins Young
The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves… — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image
“Many Englishmen have written about camels. When I open a book and see the familiar disparagement, the well-worn humour, I realize that the author's… — Wilfred Thesiger Copy Share Image
I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth. — Edward Herrmann Copy Share Image
“Number of camels it would take for a man to buy me: every camel in the world.” — Sarah Reiley Copy Share Image
Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
“The fact is that camels are far more intelligent than dolphins. They are so much brighter that they soon realised that the most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendants not to spend a lot of time on a slab with electrodes clamped to their brains or sticking mines on the bottom of ships… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
In the house of a Fidler, all fiddle. [In the house of the fiddler all fiddle.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). — George Herbert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image