(40 quotes found)
“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.”
Bible
“A camel standing amidst a flock of sheep.”
Chinese Proverbs
“A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the LORD.”
“It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
Kwame Nkrumah
“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.”
Kehlog Albran
“George, a camel, stepped on the foot of a Rockette; six sheep came off the elevator as three kings bearing gifts got on; human Christmas trees bumped into eight maids-a-milking at the water cooler and an elf came down with the flu.”
William E. Geist
“The America's Cup, yachting is great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.”
Tom Callahan
“`Take my camel, dear', said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.”
Rose Macaulay
