camel quotes

And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 3:4.

And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew19:24.

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 23:24.

A camel is a horse designed bya committee.

-Issigonis, SirAlec (AlexanderArnold Constantine)
Attributed to him in The Guardian,14  Jan1991.

The camel's hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Just So Stories,'How the Camel Got His Hump'.

'Humph yourself!' And the Camel humphed himself.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Just So Stories,'How the Camel Got His Hump'.

'Take my camel, dear,'said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.

-Macaulay, Dame (Emilie) Rose
  The Towers of  Trebizond, ch.1.

The camel has a single hump; The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around, I'm never sure. Are you?

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  The Bad Parents' Garden of  Verse,'The Camel'.

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