hump quotes

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.

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

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

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

  What are we learning Frenchor thepianofor,Iwould like to know, if it is not to be sold to a man some day† We have to cringe, and manoeuvre, and grimace for a husbanda husband who may be deaf orhavea hump if he is richa husband that may attack you in delirium tremens to-day if he makes a devout act of contrition for it to-morrow.

-William O'Brien
  When We Were Boys.

A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.

-William Makepeace Thackeray
^8  Rebecca Sharp.Vanity Fair, ch.4.