Unnecessary Quote by Fred Allen Download Open image “A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.” — Fred Allen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Unnecessary Unprepared Unwilling
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. — Richard Harkness Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Committee: A group which succeeds in getting something done only when it consists of three members, one of whom happens to be sick and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Committees are, by nature, timid. They are based on the premise of safety in numbers; content to survive inconspicuously, rather than take risks and… — Ferdinand Porsche Copy Share Image
Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms. — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
“(Faces are all important. Without faces it would be impossible to identify our friends. If we had to recognize people by their bodies, we… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Fred Allen — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“That's tragic, also unfortunate, and often illegal. More importantly, it's also unnecessary.” — Chad Eastham Copy Share Image
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for… — Helen Clark Copy Share Image
Unnecessary hustle is one of the American follies. We hustle at both work and play, and consequently enjoy neither to the utmost. — William Feather Copy Share Image
No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I belong to the initiators of the... and we had repeatedly also asked the dismantling of the SS-20 but we did not connect them… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Investors, of course, can, by their own behavior make stock ownership highly risky. And many do. Active trading, attempts to "time" market movements, inadequate… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image