Authority Quote by Mildred Cable

[On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal…

— Mildred Cable

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a…

— Freya Stark

“The camel has a big dumb ugly hump. But in the desert, where prettier, more streamlined beasts die quickly of thirst, the camel survives…

— Tom Robbins

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

“If not prevented, desertification of the world can one day make the camels as the best and the sole cars of our civilisation!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“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

I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

— Edward Herrmann

“the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.”

— yann martel

A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.

— Alec Issigonis

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

— Marianne Moore

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

— Amelia B. Edwards