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• A committee takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom.
  -- Parkinso...
• The amount of time spent by a committee on an agenda item is inversely proportional to the cost of the item.
  -- Parkinson's Law of Committee...
• There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
  -- Richte...
• Kennedy's Comment on Committees: A committee is twelve men doing the work of one.
• A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. -- Kennedy's Comment on Committee
• A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
  -- Elbert Hubbard...
• The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness.
  ... This and no other is the root from which tyranny springs....
• But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Act i, Sc. 1...
• But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn 1 Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.
  --Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1....