
“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“Out of the frying pan into the fire.”
De calcaria in carbonarium.
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.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.”
"Marianne".
Songs
“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”
"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.”
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)