Famous Quotes

"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."

Benjamin Franklin on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Benjamin Franklin

• "At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment."

• "To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly."

• "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

• "Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."

• "Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness."