Quote by Katharine Whitehorn
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who

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

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There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. – Katharine Whitehorn

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Smoking
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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you dont try to predict what. – Katharine Whitehorn

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Weather
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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. – Katharine Whitehorn

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Sports
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Committees
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Our age will be known as the age of committees. – Ernest Benn

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Committees

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

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Committees

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

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Committees

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

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Committees

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Climb mountains to see lowlands. – Chinese Proverb

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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. – James Taylor

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