Famous Quotes

"Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."

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."