Alan Ford (comics) - Popular Quotes

Popular Quotes

  • "If you want to win you must not lose" – Number One
  • "The one who flies is worthy. The one who is worthy flies. The one who doesn't fly isn't worthy" – motto on Grunf's pilot T-shirt (possibly the original Italian sentence is a Fascist slogan devised by Italo Balbo)
  • "To get the end, you must go back to the start" - Grandmother Yelsh
  • "Better to wear down your feet running than to die with unworn feet." - another motto from Grunf's T-shirt
  • "Forgot to breathe" - inscription on a tombstone
  • "Beaten by mosquitoes cal. 7,62" - inscription on a tombstone
  • "Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!" - Bob Rock
  • "Easiest way to turn defeat into a victory is to put on the enemy's uniform" - Number One
  • "Drugs make you feel you are in heaven, when in fact you are in hell" - Number One
  • "Better strategic retreat than dishonorable defeat" - Number One
  • "My dear Methuselah, you are young and strong while I am weak and old" - Number One (talking to the biblical Methuselah)
  • "Buy flowers for the beloved woman, but don't forget your own " - Ad on the flower shop

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