Eeny, meeny, miny, moe MGM's "Ars Gratia Artis". The rhyme appears towards the end of 1949 British black comedy, "Kind Hearts and Coronets". The use of the word "nigger" was censored for the American market, being replaced by "sailor". Eeny, meeny, miny, moe "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" — which can be spelled a number of ways — is a children's counting rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is
Ars longa, vita brevis Ars longa, vita brevis Ars longa, vita brevis is a Latin translation of an aphorism coming originally from Greek. The Latin quote is often rendered in English as Art is long, life is short. The aphorism quotes the first two lines of the by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates. The familiar Latin translation "Ars longa, vita brevis" reverses the order of the original lines. The original text, a standard Latin translation, and an English translation from the Greek follow. The most common and significant caveat made regarding the saying is that "art" (, translating (techne)) originally meant "technique, craft" (as