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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it! faux-Goethe http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth12.htm htt

• eru 16y ago
  Interesting read. The real Goethe also had some nice lines. There was also a link to "Shakespeare in German" (http://german.about.com/od/literature/a/Shakespeare.htm http://german.about.com/od/literature/a/Shakespeare.htm) on the site you mentioned. Did you know that Germany has the world's oldest Shakespeare Society?
  • 8ren 16y ago
    That link suggests "the beginning of the end" is from Shakespeare - do you know which work? I only know it from Churchill, and assumed it was his.
    • eru 16y ago
      I am still searching. http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cetag/1dshakes.htm http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cetag/1dshakes.htm confirms "the beginnig of the end" but does not give a source.
      • lukeschlather 16y ago
        http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ashakespeare.mit.edu+beginning+of+the+end&aq=o&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ashakespeare.... http://shakespeare.mit.edu/midsummer/midsummer.5.1.html#speech23 http://shakespeare.mit.edu/midsummer/midsummer.5.1.html#spee... "That is the true beginning of our end." Actually it seems like Shakespeare may be doing a bit of wordplay here, "end" looks like it primarily means "goal" as in "the ends justify the means."