Quotes About Camels

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
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Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
- G. K. Chesterton

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel."
- Arabian Proverb

The last straw breaks the camel's back.
- English Proverb

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
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It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.
- Turkish Proverb

It is easier to make a camel jump a ditch than to make a fool listen to reason.
- Turkish Proverb

And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.
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As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.
- Akhenaton

His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
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If the camel once gets his nose in a tent, his body will soon follow.
- Arabian Proverb

Ask a wise man to dinner and he'll upset everyone by his gloomy silence or tiresome questions. Invite him to a dance and you'll have a camel prancing about. Haul him off to a public entertainment and his face will be enough to spoil the people's entertainment.
- Desiderius Erasmus

And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! / And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! / 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.
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Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.
- David Letterman

The barking of a dog does not disturb the man on a camel.
- Egyptian Proverb

Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.
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A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
- Jackie Kennedy Quote

And John was clothed with camel's hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey; / And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
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And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague.
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Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
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And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.
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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.
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