50 quotes by Mafalda full of humor, social criticism and irony.

A selection of famous quotes from the famous comic character created by the cartoonist Quino.

Mafalda is a fictitious character created by the Argentine humorist Quinowhose real name is Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón. This girl, who is part of a comic strip, aims to represent and reflect the idealism of the middle class and progressive and concern and rebellion against the problems of today's society. Her witty phrases invite reflection on many aspects of our daily lives in an ironic and irreverent way.

It is for all these reasons that this article collects a selection of Mafalda's phrases..

50 great phrases of Mafalda

Below you can see some fifty phrases with which Quino's character, Mafalda, questions and criticizes controversial aspects of society.

1. Life is beautiful, the bad thing is that many people confuse beautiful with easy.

Difficulties and obstacles are something that we have to deal with continuously throughout life, and that in fact allow us to mature and learn to appreciate its beauty.

2. If to live is to last, I prefer a Beatles song to a Boston Pops long play.

This phrase expresses the need to live intensely and without fear, making the most of our life regardless of time.We must make the most of our lives, regardless of how long we are here.

3. Half the world likes dogs; and to this day no one knows what guau means.

Criticism of the lack of knowledge, communication and mutual understanding.

4. As always; as soon as one puts one's feet on the ground, the fun stops.

Mafalda points out that extreme realism leads us to worry too much and prevents us from dreaming.

5. The problem is that there are more interested people than interesting people.

Nowadays the prevailing culture tends towards individualismThere is a large segment of the population that focuses its behavior and lifestyle solely on the pursuit of personal gain.

6. Everywhere there is trouble, but no one dares to strangle the maitre d'.

This phrase expresses that although there are many problems, most people just suffer them without looking for a real solution to put an end to them.

7. Life is beautiful, the bad thing is that many people confuse beautiful with easy.

Difficulties and obstacles are something that we have to deal with continuously throughout life, and that in fact allow us to mature and learn to appreciate its beauty.

8. What do the years matter? What really matters is to prove that at the end of the day the best age in life is to be alive.

A reflection that encourages us to stop valuing age so much, since it is not what is important. There is no age that has to be better than another. We have to focus on what is important: living.

9. Stop the world, I want to get off!

This phrase, originally from Groucho Marx, expresses a criticism of the way the world works today and the need for change.

10. Do we send a father every day for that damned office to return this to us?

In this phrase from Mafalda is a criticism of the excessive level of demand****a and absorption of the working world.

11. The ideal would be to have the Heart in the head and the brain in the chest. Then we would think with love and love with wisdom.

A reflection that leads us to value the need for emotion and reason to go hand in hand.

12. What if instead of planning so much we could fly a little higher?

Mafalda questions the fact that we do not dare to go beyond our dreams and ambitions, limiting ourselves to act on the basis of self-imposed limits.

13. Yes, I know, there are more problem-solvers than solution-solvers, but what can we do?

In this sentence Mafalda criticizes the fact that most people tend to limit themselves to complaining about reality and pointing out what is wrong and very few seek solutions.

14. We have men of principle, too bad they never let them go beyond the principle.

In today's society, values and principles are often slammed and disregarded out of self-interest, restricting and preventing those who try to act in accordance with them from moving forward.

15. And is it not that in this world there are more and more people and less and less people?

Criticism of the progressive dehumanization of societysociety, centered on the economic and competitive and less and less concerned about their fellow men.

16. The checks of your mockery have no funds in the bank of my spirit.

The mockery and the attempt of others to harm us do not have to make a dent in us.

17. The bad thing about the mass media is that they leave us no time to communicate with ourselves.

The excess of information available through the mass media often makes us forget the importance of communicating with others or even with ourselves.

18. It is not that there is no goodness, what happens is that it is incognito

Kindness is a concept that we can apply in our daily lives, although in recent times it rarely appears in a disinterested way.

19. Start your day with a smile and you'll see how much fun it is to go around out of tune with everyone else

Criticism of the excessive rigidity, seriousness and sadness that most people show, being not so frequent to find expressions of joy in our daily life.

20. Hands up those who are sick and tired of seeing the world run with their feet!

Here we express our dissatisfaction with the way things are and the way global society is being managed.

21. The problem with closed minds is that they always have their mouths open.

Those who are less flexible and more intolerant tend to reflect and perpetuate their ideas continuously, trying to impose them on others.

22. In this family there are no bosses, we are a cooperative.

This phrase criticizes the patriarchal criticizes the traditional patriarchal modelin which the man is seen as the head of the family.

If you don't do stupid things when you are young, you have nothing to smile about when you are old.

A phrase that incites to enjoy the youth and not to take things too seriously in this vital stage, as well as to experiment and live new things and/or that make us enjoy.

24. Some love me for being the way I am, others hate me for the same reason, but I came to this life to try to be happy...not to please anyone!

We must forget and stop giving importance to what others think of us and how we are and focus on living freely, in our own way.

25. The bad thing about the great human family is that everyone wants to be the father.

This phrase expresses that everyone wants to be in charge and impose their way of acting and their points of view, which is the reason why conflicts between people, countries and cultures are born.

26. Newspapers invent half of what they say. And if we add to this the fact that they do not say half of what happens, it turns out that newspapers do not exist.

This is a criticism of the manipulation and lack of veracity of many media.

27. As always: what is urgent leaves no time for what is important

We are in a very demanding society in which we constantly have something to do and finish quickly, often leaving aside aspects that are vital to us or forgetting to deal with aspects that, although they may be minor, are still of great importance.

28. Have you ever thought that if it were not for everyone, nobody would be anything?

Mafalda makes us see that although we can get very far in life, the fact of doing so is largely due to the contribution or effect of those around us.

29. They say that man is an animal of habit, but man is an animal of habit.

Reflection on the cruelty and stubbornness of the human being.

30. Have you put on two kilos since last summer? Well, millions of people could not put on weight because they had nothing to eat. But I guess you need comfort and not to feel so stupid.

The preoccupation with the figure is something that obsesses today's developed societies, but does not take into account that a large part of humanity is starving and dying of starvation.

31. It is always late when happiness is bad

Mafalda expresses a somewhat pessimistic view of reality, as we can see in this phrase that opposes the popular saying.

32. I don't wear my hair disheveled, but my hair has freedom of expression.

Comical phrase that nevertheless can express both a criticism of the absence of freedom of expression and the existence of the consideration that anything can be done under its protection.

33. Wouldn't it be more progressive to ask where we are going to go, instead of where we are going to end up?

Through language Mafalda expresses the need to make things flow and continue instead of focusing on giving them an end.

34. It is not true that all times past were better. What was happening was that those who were worse off had not yet realized that the past was a bad time.

We must try not to mythologize the past. The past is often remembered with nostalgiaWe often remember the past with nostalgia, without taking into account that at that time we also had different difficulties.

35. Don't put off until tomorrow trying to fit in for someone else what you have to do today.

A not very subtle criticism of the tendency to look for someone to save us work by doing for us what we should be doing for ourselves.

36. I want to congratulate the countries that drive world politics. So I hope that sometime there will be reasons

Mafalda expresses her dissatisfaction with how the world and politics work today.

37. To work for a living. But why should that life that one earns have to be wasted in working for a living?

Mafalda wonders why we centralize so much of our lives around the world of work and ignore or put below other aspects that are just as or more important, such as enjoyment or personal relationships.

38. It's funny, you close your eyes and the world disappears.

Often we are too focused on what surrounds us, on the demands of work and society, on what they will think...but in the end we are going to be the ones who live our life and we must live it at our own pace.

39. Better go take a look, and if there is freedom, justice and those things wake me up whatever the number of the world is, are we?

A phrase that reflects the fact that today the world is still full of injusticethat we have to fight to achieve a better world.

40. The bad thing about reporting is that you have to answer in the moment to a journalist everything that you have not been able to answer to yourself in your whole life... And on top of that, they try to make you look smart.

This phrase expresses the fact that there is a great number of things that we do not know about ourselves or that we do not dare to ask ourselves, and that when they are pointed out, they surprise us.

41. Let's sound, guys! It turns out that if you don't hurry to change the world, then it is the world that changes you.

This phrase urges us not to conform and to fight to change what we consider unjust.

42. No one can amass a fortune without making flour for others.

This sentence expresses a criticism towards the way of stepping on and using others to achieve benefits that is still used today.

43. I would say that we should all be happy without asking why.

Happiness and joy need not have an ulterior motive for their existence, nor do they demand an explanation.

44. In all parts of the world the law of compensations has worked very well, the one who raises his voice gets the cane lowered.

This phrase of Mafalda speaks about the risk of protesting against what is established because of the punishment it may entail.

Wouldn't the world be beautiful if libraries were more important than banks?

This phrase criticizes the excessive value we give to money and the little importance that is really given to knowledge.

46. Of course money is not everything, there are also the checks

Again, an acid criticism criticism of the excessive importance given to money and economic wealth, in such a way that it seems to be everything.so much so that it seems to be all that matters.

47. Life should not throw you out of childhood without first getting you a good position in youth.

The need is expressed to be able to be a child and to be guaranteed basic aspects such as sustenance or education in order to develop into adulthood.

48. There is always someone left over

There will always be something or someone that we do not like and that opposes what we believe or what we do.

49. At the end of the day, humanity is nothing more than a sandwich of meat between heaven and earth.

A small reflection that puts us all on the same level: we are all people, no more, no less.

50. Smile! It's free and relieves headaches

Mafalda urges us to try to be happy instead of overworrying and overthinking everything.