
“Governing a large country is like frying a small fish.”
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 60
A collection of quotes on the topic of fry, pan, likeness, doing.
“Governing a large country is like frying a small fish.”
Source: Tao Te Ching, Ch. 60
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 35.
“He's one fry short of a Happy Meal.”
“You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry." -Bobby”
“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
“We have here other fish to fry.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564), Chapter 12.
“Leape out of the frying pan into the fyre.”
Part II, chapter 5.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
That bacon tray is always at the end of the buffet, you always regret all the stuff on your plate. "What am I doing with all this worthless fruit? I should have waited! If I had known you were here I would've waited...."
King Baby
From a speech http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/569/569p12.htm given at the World Social Forum in Mumbai, 16 January 2004
Speeches
"Westward The Course Of Empire Takes Its Way", Girl With Curious Hair
Short stories
Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (1978)
"Evil reign collapsed years before he fell" http://nypost.com/2011/05/03/evil-reign-collapsed-years-before-he-fell/, New York Post (May 3, 2011).
New York Post
“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.
2010s, 2018, A Free People Must Be Virtuous (2018)
“3835. Out of the Frying-pan into the Fire.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
John Pilger, This much i know http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/nov/13/pressandpublishing.observermagazine, The Observer, 13 November 2005
Rutter, Frank. Art in My Time, pp. 112–113. Rich & Cowan, London, 1933.
Linux Licensing, Forbes, 2006-03-09, Lyons, Daniel, 2006-08-28 http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/03/09/torvalds-linux-licensing-cz_dl_0309torvalds1.html,
2000s, 2006
Alan Rusbridger " The Trafigura fiasco tears up the textbook http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/oct/14/trafigura-fiasco-tears-up-textbook" The Guardian, Wednesday 14 October 2009; As cited in Paul Bradshaw, Liisa Rohumaa (2013) The Online Journalism Handbook: Skills to survive and thrive in the Digital Age. p. 176.
2000s
Quote of Moore in 'Partisan Review', New York, March-April 1947
1940 - 1955
“3179. Let him fry in his own Grease.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
a letter to his first wife Minna, from the front, 21 May, 1915; as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 213
1900s - 1920s
"The Preacher and the Slave" (1911)
Morning Joe
Television
MSNBC
2008-01-16, quoted in * Mike
Aviaz
Muriel
Kane
Huckabee: 'We used to fry squirrels in a popcorn popper'
2008-01-16
Raw Story
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Huckabee_We_used_to_fry_squirrels_0116.html
2011-03-03
“The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.”
"Menippus, a Necromantic Experiment", sect. 4; vol. 1, p. 158.
Stay
Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
The Ayatollah's Plan for Israel and Palestine http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6263/khamenei-israel-palestine, Gatestone Institute (July 31, 2015)
“Just having thoughts of Marianne, quickest girl in the frying pan.”
"Marianne".
Songs
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“Hello Fry, it's a … *[stops mid-sentence, throws a D20 and a D6]* pleasure to meet you.”
Voicing himself in "Anthology of Interest I" on Futurama (21 May 2000)
The Harmon Chronicles (ECW Press, 2002), Section I, America's Most Beautiful Baby Contest, p. 17.
2006-12-29
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2006/12/our_short_national_nightmare.html
Our Short National Nightmare
Slate
1091-2339
referencing a quote by Gerald Ford
2000s, 2006
“There's no shame in being second to Stephen Fry. Unless it's in a straight nose competition.”
Russell Brand - Oxford
“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."
Boundless Love (co-written with Dan Auerbach and Pat McLaughlin)
Song lyrics, The Tree of Forgiveness (2018)
Source: "I Quit, I Think" (1991)