Scouting Quotes

“There is no teaching to compare with example.”
― Baden Powell

“I will not underrate the importance [of equipment]... But I insist that the trained mind is the first thing, and for scouting a fool on horseback is worth less than a wise man on foot.”
― Karl Pearson, National Life from the Standpoint of Science

“They had a sweety-sweet picture of Jesus over the choir booths that I didn't like at all. Jesus looked like he was a Boy Scout, waiting to get his twenty-first merit badge from the head Scout Master.”
― Larry McMurtry, Horseman, Pass By