Famous quotes containing the words village and/or committee:
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
—John le Carré (b. 1931)