Joint Committees

Famous quotes containing the words joint and/or committees:

“What’s a joint of mutton or two in a whole Lent?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993)