Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometime…

- Alan Beck

Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little gir…

- Alan Beck

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

- Alan Beck

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappo…

- Alan Beck

Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy....A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beau…

- Alan Beck

A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but y…

- Alan Beck

A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise th…

- Alan Beck