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 of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

A conference is a gathering of people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

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

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk