Ars Longa, Vita Brevis.
Hempy,
Thanks for the link. Have tried it, but it won't play. Probably just me !
My electrician was a plumber in one of the Google versions. Is that the connection ?...D
LowNSlow,
"Out of the mouths of Babes !" But Grandad was a bit "off Beam" if referring to the present chap, who is an Argentinian. But if he had WWII in mind, then Eugene Pacelli (Pius XII) was an Italian and so (unjustly) tarred with Il Duce's brush.....D.
teeteringhead,
Another version has it that an irreverent wag, visiting a cemetery, passed a gravestone recording the untimely passing of a three-year old child of that name, and could not resist the unseemly quotation....D.
Cheers all, Danny.