Committee Quote by 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

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

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

— Milton Berle

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

— Elbert Hubbard

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

— Richard Harkness

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

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

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

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

A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.

— John F. Kennedy

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is…

— Anthony Trollope

A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.

— Herbert Beerbohm Tree