Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
Source: Observations, Are You Sitting Comfortably?, 1970.
-- Katharine Whitehorn, (Jan 0 1928-____), English writer, essayist; She is a noted writer on food and wine in How to Survive in the Kitchen, 1979.