To kill time; a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. ~Author Unknown


A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ~Barnett Cocks; attributed


Could Hamlet have been written by a committee; or the Mona Lisa painted by a club?... Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam. ~Alfred Whitney Griswold


If you live in a country run by committee; be on the committee. ~Author Unknown


To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people; two of whom are absent. ~Robert Copeland


A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. ~Author Unknown


Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. ~Katharine Whitehorn


"If you had to identify; in one word; the reason why the human race has not achieved; and never will achieve; its full potential; that word would be ""meetings.""? ~Dave Barry; ""Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn"""


There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. ~Lester J. Pourciau


"A ""Normal"" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know; ""Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.""? ~Alan Sherman"


A committee is an animal with four back legs. ~John le Carr?; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy


If computers get too powerful; we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in. ~Author Unknown


People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. ~Thomas Sowell


A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. ~Elbert Hubbard


If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. ~Arthur Goldberg


Our age will be known as the age of committees. ~Ernest Benn


A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. ~Milton Berle


I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can; oh; govern a country; perhaps; but I don't believe it can write a book. ~Arnold Toynbee


Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. ~John Kenneth Galbraith


We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. ~Frank Moore Colby


A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit; to do the unnecessary. ~Author Unknown


Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. ~George Will


It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise; just and omnipotent God; but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. ~H.L. Mencken