
“3835. Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
De Carne Christi, 6; "The Roman version of the proverb is more literally translated "Out of the lime-kiln into the coal-furnace."
De calcaria in carbonarium.
“3835. Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.”
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.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”
"Menippus, a Necromantic Experiment", sect. 4; vol. 1, p. 158.
“Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.”
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
“Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.”
"Marianne".
Songs
“Falling from the pan
Into the fire beneath.”
Canto XIII, stanza 30 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)