kvothe-kingkiller:

allyments:

helene-of-flowers:

peoplecallmecarfanatic:

I just love how in English you say “great minds think alike”, which is a completely positive thing since you’re kinda praising yourself, but in German you go like “zwei Dumme, ein Gedanke” = “two fools, one thought” 

German is beautiful, isn’t it

Kind of reminds me when my french teacher explained us the french idiom “L’espoir fait vivre” (Hope makes us live) and he asked me how Germans say it and I was like “Hope dies last” and his legit answer was:

“See, that’s why no one likes you!”

I might add that ‘Hope dies last’ is NOT upbeat but a sarcastic thing you say when someone attempts something they are clearly going to fail. Cause like all they have is hope and nothing legitimate that will help them.

to be fair to english, there’s a response to the phrase ‘great minds think alike’ and its ‘but fools seldom differ’