A camel's hump is an ugly lump

A camel is a large mammal, used in the Middle East as a beast of burden. It has (depending on the species) one or two large humps on its back.

Quotes

• It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
  • The Bible, (Luke 18:25)

• CAMEL, n. A quadruped (the Splaypes humpidorsus) of great value to the show business. There are two kinds of camels -- the camel proper and the camel improper. It is the latter that is always exhibited.
  • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

• A camel's hump is an ugly lump
  • Rudyard Kipling, 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.
  • Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond, opening words.

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

• Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
  Polonius: By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iii. Sc. 2.

• The voice of any camel has a wide range in pessimistic eloquence; beyond question a camel has a vocabulary and can say many things, all of them discontented.
  • Booth Tarkington, The Plutocrat, chapter 28.

• Looking athwart the burning flats, far off
  Seen by the high-necked camel on the verge
  Journeying southward
  • Alfred Tennyson, A Fragment.

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