Humour is one of the most difficult aspects of learning a foreign language.
Word plays, subtle nuances and cultural differences can make something which is hilarious to a native speaker incomprehensible to anyone else.
But some humour transcends language and cultural barriers and some like the Mafalda cartoons have international appeal.
Mafalda, created by Quino, which was the pen name of Salvador Lavado,was first published in Argentina 45 years ago today.
It is a cartoon strip which features Mafalda, her family and friends. She is a young girl with a very advanced wit and social conscience:
Good morning. Have they abolished the earth’s injustices yet?
Ah. No?
Wake me for lunch then.
Ahem.
From this humble little chair I make a sincere call for world peace!
At the end of the day it seems that the Vatican, the UN and my chair are worth about the same.
Homepaddock 
This are other good Mafalda quotes:
And finally, How it is? One tramples life ahead or life tramples you?
It turns out that if one does not hurry to change the world, then it’s the world the one that changes you !
Where do I have to push this country to carry it forward?
If to live is to endure, I prefer a Beatles song to a Long Play of the Boston Pops.
It could be that modern life has more of modern than of life?
They say that man is a creature of habit, rather an usual habit is for a man to be an animal.
As always the urgent does not leave time to the important
It isn´t true that all the past time was better. What happened was that the the past was worse, but the ones back them had not yet been realized.
Mr. Secretary of the UN: For in Washington and Paris is day … while in Moscow and Beijing at night .. do not you think then that what divides the world is not politics but the bed?
We all believe in our country, but we dont know if at this point our country still believes in us.
Life is a beautiful thing. But it is a sad fact that some people confuse beautiful with easy.
#The real purpose of politics is how comfortable and happy existence of peoples#. (Rousseau) Of course,of course. #The honest man has the right to makes mistakes#. (Marti) We have a most sincere people, then. #Freedom exists only in the land of dreams#. (Schiller) And then I’m the pessimist!
They talk so much about depositing confidence. But no one says what interests they will pay you for that.
No one can mash a fortune with out smashing others.
When a country is spent where they throw it?
Life should not deprive one childhood of without first giving children a good position in youth.
Yes, fine. You have to work for living. But why you have to lose your live working?
It is a right attitude to smile at bad times. But untill when we have to keep faking this ordered happiness?
Having childs just for perpetuate the specie? I want to be a mother! Not a factory of spare parts!
It would be nice to get up one morning to find that one’s life depends on one self.
I translate them, so I hope nothing important get lost in translation.
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Thank you for all those. I have some Mafalda books in Spanish which I can’t always translate properly, and some in English.
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Your welcome. I actually got Toda Mafalda.(All Mafalda) and I took some quotes from there.
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