quotes about Frying Pans
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As mayor, I'm in the frying pan. I'm just sitting here on the griddle now, and I've got to really think, you know, do I want to stay here on the griddle?
-- Anthony A. Williams -
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.…
-- Cate Tiernan -
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
-- Eric Hoffer -
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 -
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It is splendid to be a great writer, to put men into the frying pan of your words and make them pop like chestnuts.
-- Gustave Flaubert -
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 -
You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
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The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.
-- LucianSource : Lucian of Samosata (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucian (Illustrated)”, p.473, Delphi Classics
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
History is an alternating series of frying pans and fires.
-- Peter Esterhazy -
I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.
-- Tommy Emmanuel -