# The best quotes from Mafalda and her gang

The most memorable lines from Quino's comic strips (1964-1973), by Mafalda and by Felipe, Manolito, Susanita, Miguelito, Libertad and Guille, as collected on Wikiquote. Beware of the ones going around online: many are not by Quino.

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- Jan 31, 2020 · Nicolás Pereyra
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## Top 12

1. **Stop the world, I want to get off** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mafalda's most famous line, a motto for several generations.
2. **As always: the urgent leaves no time for the important** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mafalda on the eternal struggle between the urgent and the important.
3. **Why did I, of all people, have to end up being like me?** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Felipe, the dreamiest and most insecure of the gang.
4. **What if, before starting what we have to do, we start what we should have already done?** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Felipe, an expert at putting off his homework.
5. **The cheques of your mockery bounce at the bank of my spirits** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Manolito answering mockery in shopkeeper's language.
6. **It's not true that the past was always better. It's just that those who were worse off hadn't realized it yet** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mafalda debunking nostalgia.
7. **So how does it work in the end? Do we carry our life forward, or does life run us over?** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One of Mafalda's big existential questions.
8. **It's funny: you close your eyes and the world disappears** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mafalda discovering philosophy with her eyes closed.
9. **I love humanity, it's people I can't stand** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — One of the most quoted lines of the strip; Wikiquote lists it among Susanita's.
10. **My husband will be tall, dark and motherless, and nothing will ever come between us** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Susanita, obsessed with getting married and having kids.
11. **Nobody can make a fortune without grinding others into flour** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Manolito, the grocer's son, and his take on business.
12. **A flea can't bite a locomotive, but it can cover the driver in bites** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Libertad, Mafalda's tiny revolutionary friend.
13. **I don't know how people would leave if they didn't have backs** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Miguelito and his impossible reasoning.
14. **I would say that we should all be happy without asking why** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Miguelito and his philosophy of happiness.
15. **Today I entered the world through the back door** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Mafalda, on one of those days when everything starts out wrong.
16. **The other days I read in the newspaper how the Ford Lotus gearbox works and I didn't understand a thing either.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Felipe and his struggle with reading.
17. **What do I do with the little hole I feel inside me when I'm not** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Guille, Mafalda's little brother, with his half tongue.
18. **Wouldn't it be more progressive to ask where we'll go on, instead of where we'll end up?** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Mafalda, always worried about where the world is heading.

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