A committee is an animal with four back legs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
They sit there in committees day after day, And they each put in a color and it comes out gray. And we all have heard the saying, which is true as well as witty, That a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.