Standing Committees

Famous quotes containing the words standing and/or committees:

    A poore widow, some deal stape in age,
    Was whilom dwelling in a narrow cottage,
    Beside a grove, standing in a dale.
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    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)