Love, n - A temporary insanity curable by marriage. - Ambrose Bierce
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death. - Spike Milligan
Poverty: a temporary financial low, curable by money. - Stephen Richards
ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Byron, who recovered long enough to call it "entuzy-muzy," had a relapse, which carried him off -- to Missolonghi. - Ambrose Bierce