“Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.”

“3835. Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.”

“Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.”

“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”

“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”

“Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”

“Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire; or, out of God's blessing into the warm sun.”

“Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.”

“Four men describe how their wives hit them in the lower back with a pole, cracked them over the head or in the neck with a frying pan… the audience renews its laughter after each story. The men are part of a “PMS Men’s Support Group.” Imagine an audience of men laughing as battered women describe how their husbands threatened them with brain or spinal cord injuries by battering them over their heads or in their necks with a frying pan.”

“It was all I could do to not knock him down right there in front of Asher and climb on him. If I stunned him with a frying pan first, he might not struggle too much.…”