
“My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
Quoted in: Scott Slater, Alec Solomita (1980), Exits: stories of dying moments & parting words. p. 8.
Slater & Solomita (1980) explained:
"It was a spirited dinner and Picasso a cheerful, genial host. After the meal, while pouring wine into a friend's glass, Picasso said, Drink to me. Drink to my health. You know I can't drink any more. A little later, about 11:30 P.M., he left his guests, saying, And now I must go back to work. He was up painting until 3:00 A.M. That morning Picasso woke at 11:30, unable to move. By 11:40 he was dead..".
1970s
“My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.”
Source: It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs
Grace Is Gone
Busted Stuff (2002)
“I don't have a drinking problem ‘cept when I can't get a drink.”
"Bad Liver and a Broken Heart", Small Change (1976).
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
Variant: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Variant: Fruitful earth drinks up the rain, Trees from earth drink that again; The sea too drinks the air, the sun Drinks the sea, and him the moon. Is it reason, then, do ye think, That I should thirst when all else drink?
Source: Odes, 21.
Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea (2008)