"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
"How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!"
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Source: I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933). Nigel Rees, in his Quote ... Unquote Newsletter, has found this joke appearing earlier in the cartoon Pop in 1921: woman: 'You say what you like, Pop! Marriage is a jolly good institution!' POP: 'Yes! But who wants to live in an institution?
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