“A man destined to fry
Can never ever ever die…
In any other way but frying. Lucky that I'm dying
By hanging and not drowning.”
"Daniel Cowman"
Songs (2002)
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Henry Moore (1898–1986) English artist
Quote of Moore in 'Partisan Review', New York, March-April 1947
1940 - 1955
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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
“We have here other fish to fry.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 12.
“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)
“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)