“Old age is second childhood.”
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Athenian playwright of Old Comedy -448–-386 BCRelated quotes

“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old age.”
1840s, Letters from New York (1843)
Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/66/12266.html, vol. 1, letter 37

As quoted in Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion (1958) by Millard Dale Baughman, p. 69
1950s

Source: Fallen Leaves (2014), Ch. 1 : Our life begins

"Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," lines 1-4, from Wine from These Grapes (1934)

"Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies," lines 1-4, from Wine from These Grapes (1934)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 287.

Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book One, Part II: Free of Debt