Committees

From This Dog'll Really Hunt: An Entertaining Texas Dictionary by Wallace O. Chariton (Wordware Publishing, Piano, Texas, 1989, 1990):

ESC... some good stuff. The ones about "slow" are closer to what I was looking for. Not so much "lazy". I'm thinking about situations (projects, for instance) that are stuck. Think about undertakings dependent on committees, rather than on individuals. Ya know? SLUGGISH!

Keep 'em coming, people. These are great, so far.

Patty

SLOW As sucking buttermilk through a straw. Slow as smoke off a fresh cow patty in January. (Actually, I've heard this more directly: Slow as smoke off s*#t.) Slow as wet gunpowder. Slow as a hound dog in August.

And then there's LAZY. He'll starve to death because he won't work and he's too lazy to steal. He has to prop himself up to spit.

Like watching paint dry?

From "Webster's Dictionary of Quotations":

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. (Barnett Cocks, attributed)

A committee is an animal with four back legs. (John Le Carre, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy")

A committee has the instincts of a sloth, the cunning of a fox and the brain of a bee. - (James Rae (1907 - 1984), attributed)