“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.
“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
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“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)
“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.
“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)
“Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
"Marianne".
Songs
“Falling from the pan
Into the fire beneath.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
Canto XIII, stanza 30 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
“It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 120
“There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.”
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXVIII: On the Healing Power of the Mind