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

    Death   Black   Camels  
    "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.
  • No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

  • Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

    Clouds   Sky   Sailing  
    Roger Ebert's review of "Cloud Atlas", www.rogerebert.com. October 24, 2012.
  • Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

  • I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

    Media   People   Guy  
    Interview with Jed Babbin, humanevents.com. February 2, 2009.
  • A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

    Horse   Believe   Camels  
    George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions
  • there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.

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

    Horse   Camels   Looks  
  • I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

    Believe   Eye   Men  
  • Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.

  • If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to do it unless there had been some good in it.

    Spiritual   Men   Camels  
  • If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.

    Animal   Islam   Camels  
  • There are surprising turning points; there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.

    Camels   Action   Break  
    Source: www.yesmagazine.org
  • It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.

    Dream   Lying   Heart  
  • It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

    Giving Up   Eye   Men  
  • Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes. You wouldn't take a vacation where you ride on a stage coach for two months but there's all-you-can-eat shrimp. You wouldn't take a vacation where you had an old-timey appendectomy without anesthesia while steel drums play. You might take a vacation while riding on a camel for two days IF they gave you those little animal towels wearing your sunglasses.

    Animal   Vacation   Play  
  • A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama

    Hero   Men   Camels  
    Guy Steele (1990). “Common LISP: The Language”, p.406, Elsevier
  • I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

    Funny   Drinking   Beer  
    Recalled on his death, 4 Jun1971.
  • The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

    Self   Hands   Smell  
    Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant (2004). “Programming Perl: 3rd Edition”, p.4, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
  • 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 comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.

    Kerstin Gier (2014). “The Ruby Red Trilogy”, p.225, Macmillan
  • There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel.

    Book   Reading   Home  
  • Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

    Life   Adversity   Camels  
  • The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

    Silly   Animal   House  
    Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press
  • 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.

    Wisdom   Horse   Islamic  
  • He runs like a camel. A really pissed off camel.

  • it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

    Singing   Sound   Camels  
    Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”
  • I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

    Beautiful   Hate   Animal  
  • Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster
  • The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

    Two   Camels   Way  
    'The Camel' (1936)
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