“Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Out of the frying pan into the fire.”
De calcaria in carbonarium.
Tertullian (155–220) Christian theologian
De Carne Christi, 6; "The Roman version of the proverb is more literally translated "Out of the lime-kiln into the coal-furnace."
“3835. Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”
Lucian (120) ancient Greek writer
"Menippus, a Necromantic Experiment", sect. 4; vol. 1, p. 158.
“Out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
“Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
"Marianne".
Songs
Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones