After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. – W.C. Fields
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. – W.C. Fields

After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse. – W.C. Fields
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. – W.C. Fields
I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. – W.C. Fields
Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits. – Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882