“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”– Benjamin Franklin Related Quotes “Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”– Christian Nestell Bovee “A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”– Oliver Goldsmith “Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.”– Bette Davis