Leave It to Beaver (TV Series)

Beaver's Library Book (1960)

Hugh Beaumont: Ward Cleaver

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Quotes 

• Ward Cleaver : In the first place, it's always wrong to tell a lie, and in the second place, you just build up more trouble for yourself by not facing the truth.

  Theodore 'Beaver' Cleaver : I wouldn't mind facin' the truth, if so much hollering didn't go with it.

• [June greets Ward and Wally at the kitchen door] 

  June Cleaver : Well, the head of the house is home.

  Wally Cleaver : Yeah, Mom, here I am!

  Ward Cleaver : I, uh, picked him up on the way home.

  Wally Cleaver : Yeah. I was walkin' home by myself, and there were no guys around who could see me riding with my father, so I let him ride me home. Well, uh, you know how it is, Dad.

  Ward Cleaver : [patronizing a bit]  Oh, sure.

  Wally Cleaver : But thanks anyway.

  Ward Cleaver : [as Wally leaves]  It's all right.

  June Cleaver : Why wouldn't a boy want to ride home with his own father, Dear?

  Ward Cleaver : Oh, I don't think he has anything against fathers in general, Dear, it's just his status as a teenager he's worried about.

  June Cleaver : Ward, what ever happened to those boys who used to boast that their father could lick anybody on the block?

  Ward Cleaver : Well, the psychologists did away with them a long time ago, Honey. Any kid today who has a good word to say about his father is a non-conformist.