“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."
“Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”
— Angela Carter, book Nights at the Circus
Source: Nights at the Circus
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Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“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.
“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)
“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".
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Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
Source: Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Ch VIII: The World As It Could Be Made, p. 129-130
1910s, Proposed Roads To Freedom (1918)
Context: One of the most horrible things about commercialism is the way in which it poisons the relations of men and women. The evils of prostitution are generally recognized, but, great as they are, the effect of economic conditions on marriage seems to me even worse. There is not infrequently, in marriage, a suggestion of purchase, of acquiring a woman on condition of keeping her in a certain standard of material comfort. Often and often, a marriage hardly differs from prostitution except by being harder to escape from. The whole basis of these evils is economic. Economic causes make marriage a matter of bargain and contract, in which affection is quite secondary, and its absence constitutes no recognized reason for liberation. Marriage should be a free, spontaneous meeting of mutual instinct, filled with happiness not unmixed with a feeling akin to awe: it should involve that degree of respect of each for the other that makes even the most trifling interference with liberty an utter impossibility, and a common life enforced by one against the will of the other an unthinkable thing of deep horror.
“Falling from the pan
Into the fire beneath.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Canto XIII, stanza 30 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)