Quotation
“Childhood the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth : two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.”
Ambrose Bierce
The idea behind the quotation
The quote humorously portrays childhood as a brief stage between infant foolishness and youthful folly, still far from adulthood’s wrongdoing and old age’s regrets.