To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent. – Robert Copeland
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours. – Milton Berle
Our age will be known as the age of committees. – Ernest Benn
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. – Barnett Cocks, attributed
A committee is an animal with four back legs. – John le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
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
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
Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings. – George Will
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. – Author Unknown
A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary. – Author Unknown
If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee. – Author Unknown
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
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. – Frank Moore Colby
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. – Lester J. Pourciau
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
