A Quote by Eric Hoffer

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Eric Hoffer

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Escape Even Feel Fire Free Frying Pan

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Eric Hoffer
American - Writer
July 25, 1898 - May 21, 1983

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Tertullian

out of the frying pan and into the fire

J. R. R. Tolkien

Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.

Miguel de Cervantes

FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Lucian

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

Angela Carter

Naturally, the workers are perfectly free; the manufacturer does not force them to take his materials and his cards, but he says to them..'If you don't like to be frizzled in my frying- pan, you can take a walk into the fire.

Friedrich Engels

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

Miguel de Cervantes

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

J. R. R. Tolkien

unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag. Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

Anne Sexton

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

Tommy Emmanuel

I was like any new bride, who said, 'I'm going to cook for my man.' In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.