Absent Quote by Abraham Lincoln

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can…

— Fred Allen

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.

— Green Monk

Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.

— Fred Allen

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.

— Richard Harkness

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

— Fred Allen

“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 thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.

— Elbert Hubbard

A committee of three can accomplish much if two don't show up.

— Kurt Vonnegut

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it…

— C. Northcote Parkinson

Committee, n.: A group of people that, when given the task of deciding whether to start array indices from either 0 or 1, compromises…

— Stan Kelly-Bootle

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

— Milton Berle

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

— Stella Benson