“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.
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.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“22 Proposition. The Woman clad with the Sunne (chap. 12) is the true Church of God.”
John Napier (1550–1617) Scottish mathematician
A Plaine Discovery of the Whole Revelation of St. John (1593), The First and Introductory Treatise
“God bless pop music and God bless MTV.”
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
MTV Video Music Awards 2010.
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-British writer
Victory: An Island Tale http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6378/6378-h/6378-h.htm (1915), Part II, ch. 3
Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
Verse "Intended to allay the Violence of Party-Spirit"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
“Bless yourself first before expecting God to bless you.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
“You have lifted a shadow of fear for many families. God bless you and may God bless the victims.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Air Force One phone call https://web.archive.org/save/http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2002-10-25/article/15626?headline=Bush-praises-law-community-for-capturing-sniper-suspects--By-Ron-Fournier- to Charles A. Moose (24 October 2002), as quoted in "Bush Praises Law Community For Capturing Sniper Suspects" (25 October 2002), by Ron Fournier, Berkeley Daily Planet. <br class="br">2000s, 2002
Theodore Roethke book The Far Field
Body and soul are one!
The small become the great, the great the small;
The right thing happens to the happy man.
"The Right Thing," ll. 7-9
The Far Field (1964)