“The dandelion's pallid tube/ Astonishes the grass,/ And winter instantly becomes/ An infinite alas.”
Emily Dickinson
“Out went the taper as she hurried in; / Its little smoke, in pallid moonshine, died.”
John Keats
“You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.”
William Arthur Ward
“Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done than do.”
Edward Abbey
“UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.”
Dave Barry
“You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.”
H. R. Haldeman
