Quotes on Boy Scout

I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative arts, folklore, advertising, voices making announcements, aerodynamism, boy scouts, the smell of moth balls, events of the moment, and drunken people.

I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization that has a handbook.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.